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Barreling Towards Retirement, With 10 Years Between Us
Tips for retirement planning dilemmas when spouses quit work at very different ages
By Bruce HorovitzFebruary 20, 2019
By Bruce Horovitz
Credit: Adobe
When my wife, Evelyne, and I got married 27 years ago, the absolute last thing on our minds was retirement.
Fast forward 27 years, with me now 66 and Evelyne turning 56 in a few months, and retirement is fast-becoming one of the first things on our minds. But there’s one problem: Some form of retirement seems likely to suit me sooner — and her later. Welcome to our warped world of age-gap retirement.
We routinely wrestle with our 10-year age difference that shapes and re-shapes our retirement visions. And we’ve got lots of company. Nearly two in 10 married couples in America have at least a six-year age spread between them, according to the Census Bureau. So there are millions of us looking for a logical way to balance our age spreads with the siren song of retirement.
The simple answer to age gap retirement is that there is no simple answer. Everyone’s life journey and retirement plans are different. That said, retirement — particularly for age-gap couples like us — requires forethought aplenty.
“The biggest problem is that people don’t think about it early enough in the planning process,” says Dawn Doebler, senior wealth adviser at the financial planning firm The Colony Group in Bethesda, Md. “Many people arrive at retirement age and only then begin to start thinking about it.”
For advice on how age-gap couples should approach seven of retirement’s most difficult decisions, I reached out to four nationally recognized financial planning experts. Then, I compared their advice with the actual actions Evelyne and I have taken. Off we go:
Dilemma No. 1: When to Stop Working?
The experts’ advice: If the older spouse can squeeze out an extra year or two — or three — of work before retirement, that’s usually a good thing. “The biggest issue is that your retirement pool of money has to stretch up to twice as long” for most age-gap couples, says Kristi Sullivan, owner of Sullivan Financial Planning in Denver.
What we’re doing: I plan to continue working from home as a freelance writer and media-training consultant for at least several more years. I enjoy the work and we need the income, with one daughter in college and another daughter soon-to-be. Evelyne intends to keep working as an elementary school special education aide for another decade or so, in part because we need the health care coverage the job provides for our two children and her. Technically, this leaves us with mismatched retirement dates.
Dilemma No. 2: What to Do When Your Retirement Dates Don’t Match?
The experts’ advice: “The trick is finding the balance between being reasonably comfortable from a financial perspective, but still enjoying your life — and each other — while you can,” says Sullivan.
What we’re doing: Initially, we’re happy to accept what I call “half-a-loaf” retirement. Evelyne will likely still be working for some years after I retire. But because she’s a teacher, she’ll still have lengthy spring, summer and winter vacations. This affords us the potential for solid chunks of travel time that most folks only get in real retirement.
Dilemma No. 3: When Should We Start Taking Social Security?
The experts’ advice: Most people can’t afford to wait until 70 to collect Social Security (the latest you can delay starting to claim benefits), but if you can possibly wait until at least the older spouse reaches 70, this can have a huge benefit for the younger spouse of an age-gap couple.
That’s particularly true for more conservative investors because it’s extremely unlikely they’ll be able match the guaranteed 8 percent annual growth in benefits for those who wait to take Social Security, says Ben Flood, vice president at Bigelow Investment Advisors in Portland, Maine.
Don’t forget that Social Security income has to last through both of your lifetimes. If the younger spouse is female, actuarially speaking, she not only faces a longer retirement lifespan than her husband, she’s also likely to live to an older age than him.
What we’re doing: We’re bucking the wait-until-70 advice. I reached Full Retirement Age for Social Security (for me, that’s 66) last December and started claiming benefits then. With one daughter in college and another soon-to-be, my accountant and financial adviser both advised that I take this step.
Dilemma No. 4: Should We Buy Long-Term Care Insurance and If So, When?
The experts’ advice: It’s expensive and you might feel like you almost want to hold your nose when you buy it, but long-term care insurance is most affordable if you make the purchase when you’re in your 50s. The younger you are when you apply, the more likely you’ll be approved — and the lower your annual costs will likely be.
“Whatever you do, don’t wait until you’re 70 so have this conversation,” says Flood.
What we’re doing: We goofed on this one. Although Evelyne was still in her mid-50s when we applied for long-term care insurance, I was already in my mid-60s. That made for a longer approval process and a pricier policy. But at least we got this one done.
Dilemma No. 5: How to Handle Pension and Annuity Distributions?
The experts’ advice: If you have an age gap, you want to choose joint and survivor benefits for your pension and annuity distributions. That way, there will be regular income through the lifetimes of both spouses, says Doebler.
What we’re doing: Precisely as advised.
Dilemma No. 6: How to Invest a Portfolio With a Large Age Gap?
The experts’ advice: Because of the age gap, it’s critical to err on the side of being more aggressive as an investor, says Kathleen Hastings, senior portfolio manager at FBB Capital Partners in the Washington, D.C. metro area. That means continuing to own stocks, rather than just bonds, bank accounts and money-market mutual funds. “You need to make sure you have enough to combat inflation over time,” Hastings says.
What we’re doing: We took the slightly more-aggressive route. Even at this stage, our portfolio is roughly 60 percent equities and 40 percent bonds — managed by a financial adviser who came highly recommended by co-workers.
Dilemma No. 7: How to Emotionally Prepare for the Older Spouse Retiring ?
The experts’ advice: In advance of the older spouse’s retirement, it is critical to discuss everything from the impending division of labor to how the retired spouse should spend his or her time, says Sullivan.
The key is to avoid resentment between the person still going to work and the one staying home, says Hastings. “You need to talk about it — but few people do,” she says.
What we’re doing: We’re not quite there yet. But we talk about everything — and we plan to deal with this one straight on as my retirement gets closer. Since I’m now working from home, I’ve already happily taken on several additional morning duties each weekday, from feeding our dog and guinea pigs to cleaning up the kitchen after breakfast to emptying the dishwasher to making the bed.
Bruce Horovitz is a national freelance writer and media training consultant. He can be reached at [email protected]
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DARPA Highlights 10 Focus Areas for Innovative Small Businesses
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The agency also stood up an in-house startup accelerator to propel the most promising tech to the commercial market.
The Defense Department announced the 10 research areas where it wants innovative small businesses to direct their efforts in 2019.
The agency’s research office is also standing up an in-house startup accelerator to help companies usher their tech out of the lab and into the real world.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Friday laid out the focus areas for its Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, and Small Business Technology Transfer, or STTR, programs. Over the next year, DARPA will recruit companies to participate in cutting-edge national security research efforts like advancing “third wave” artificial intelligence, developing miniature satellites, building lethal lasers and upgrading the country’s nuclear arsenal.
“Small businesses are critical for developing technology to support national security,” DARPA officials wrote in the solicitation. “The pace of discovery in both science and technology is accelerating worldwide, resulting in new fields of study and the identification of scientific areas ripe for small business utilization through the SBIR and STTR programs.”
The programs are divided into two phases, with companies first exploring the viability of their idea before building a final product. Companies that can already prove their tech is feasible are eligible to jump directly into the second phase of the program.
Teams are eligible for up to $251,250 in funding for phase one of the program, and $1.65 million in phase two, a DARPA spokesperson told Nextgov. Last year, the agency allocated roughly $101 million for the SBIR and STTR programs, they said.
This year for the first time, selected companies will also have the chance to participate in a new Pentagon-sponsored startup incubator to bring their ideas to fruition faster.
The DARPA Accelerator program will connect the most promising teams with industry and government advisors, as well as the agency’s “extensive” network of investors, who can help commercialize their product. Under the program, groups will also be eligible for up to $250,000 in extra funding for phase two of the program, according to the solicitation.
SBIR and STTR proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through Feb. 29, 2020.
This year, companies can receive SBIR and STTR funding for research projects in these 10 categories:
Examples: Improve algorithms, enhance data quality, optimize human-machine interactions and disrupt adversaries’ efforts to corrupt systems.
Examples: Address the teaming of autonomous systems, enhance machine perception, improve reasoning and intelligence, build trust between humans and autonomous systems.
Examples: Address high-performance, low power embedded processing and develop algorithms for resource allocation, self-configuring and self-healing networks.
Examples: Fix behavioral issues, develop self-securing networks and create strategies to assess cyber effects and consequences.
Directed Energy (read: lasers)
Examples: Address power scaling, jitter reduction, laser size and weight, adaptive optics, beam propagation and target tracking.
Hypersonics
Examples: Create high-temperature materials, hypersonic vehicle manufacturing, air-breathing propulsion, and hypersonic guidance and control systems.
Examples: Develop economically competitive domestic manufacturing capabilities, improve radiation hardening, and develop radio frequency technologies for special applications in nuclear, space and electronic warfare.
Examples: Create quantum clocks and sensors, quantum communications technologies and develop enabling technologies for quantum computing in the areas of cryogenics and photon detection.
Examples: Develop low earth orbit nano-satellites for missile warning, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, navigation and communications.
Nuclear Modernization
Examples: Modernize the nuclear triad (bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and ballistic missile submarines) as well as the supporting infrastructure, including the national laboratories and the nuclear command, control, and communications network.
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Merchant replaces Erne on Prospects Game roster
by Mike G. Morreale
All-American Prospects Game roster
Team McClanahan
Goalies: Cal Petersen, Waterloo (USHL); Jared Rutledge, University of Michigan (CCHA).
Defensemen: Gage Ausmus, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Will Butcher, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Trevor Hamilton, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Seth Jones, Portland (WHL); Clint Lewis, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Dakota Mermis, University of Denver (WCHA).
Forwards: Justin Bailey, Kitchener (OHL); Taylor Cammarata, Waterloo (USHL); Cole Cassels, Oshawa (OHL); Austin Farley, University of Minnesota-Duluth (WCHA); Hudson Fasching, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Ryan Fitzgerald, Valley Jr. Warriors (EJHL); Luke Johnson, Lincoln (USHL); Matt Lane, Boston University (HEA); Jimmy Lodge, Saginaw (OHL); Mike McCarron, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Jacob Montgomery, Sioux City (USHL); Quentin Shore, University of Denver (WCHA).
Team Housley
Goalies: Hunter Miska, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Eamon McAdam, Waterloo (USHL).
Defense: Cody Corbett, Edmonton (WHL); Mike Downing, Dubuque (USHL); Ian McCoshen, Waterloo (USHL); Steve Santini, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Scott Savage, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Keaton Thompson, USNTDP U-18 (USHL).
Forwards: Evan Allen, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); J.T. Compher, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Dawson Cook, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Ryan Hartman, Plymouth (OHL); Tyler Kelleher, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Anthony Louis, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Sean Malone, USNTDP U-18; Tyler Motte, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Ross Olsson, Lincoln (USHL); Devin Tringale, USNTDP U-18 (USHL); Frank Vatrano, Boston College (HEA); Will Merchant, University of Maine (HEA).
Following a stellar senior season at Eagan (Minn.) High School, forward Will Merchant went unselected at the 2012 NHL Draft.
The 6-foot-1, 185-pound left wing is determined to do all he can this season to convince NHL scouts they made a mistake.
The first step in that process will come Sept. 29, when he takes part in the CCM/USA All-American Prospects Game, to be played at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo.
Merchant, now a freshman at the University of Maine, will replace Quebec Remparts forward Adam Erne, who is unable to attend the game, on the team coached by Phil Housley.
Merchant was invited to the Minnesota Wild's summer prospect development camp, and told the Maine Hockey Journal he felt confident skating alongside many of the Wild's top prospects.
"I thought I did really well for my first time there," he said. "I was able to compete and play my game. The speed and size of the players was the biggest adjustment for me. Everybody out there is big, but I got an idea of what it'll be like in college."
Merchant said the invitation to Minnesota's development camp one day after the completion of the 2012 NHL Draft.
"I was a little disappointed about not being drafted because I thought I would be picked," Merchant said. "But playing in the prospect camp was a good thing, for sure."
Last season Merchant had 25 goals and 52 points as a senior at Eagan High, which finished 25-5-1. He also was a finalist for the prestigious Mr. Hockey Award, given to the top high school hockey player in Minnesota.
Maine finished 23-14-3 last season and reached the first round of the NCAA Division I tournament, and Merchant said he's looking forward to helping it to another successful season.
"They're a really fast team that likes to play physical," Merchant told SunThisweek.com. "I like to do that too, so I think it's a good fit for me. I've got to keep working on my skating. I've been working out four or five times a week this summer."
Follow Mike Morreale on Twitter at: @mike_morreale
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Forest Service transfers 4FRI contract to Good Earth Power
Kaibab National Forest Supervisor Mike Williams signs the historic 4FRI agreement Feb. 23, 2011. Submitted photo
Marissa Freireich
Originally Published: September 24, 2013 10:22 a.m.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - A new company has taken over the work laid out in the Four Forest Restoration Initiative, (4FRI) the largest forest restoration project in the country.
On Sept. 13, the Forest Service announced that Good Earth Power AZ LLC will take over the terms and conditions of Pioneer Forest Products' former contract.
"The Forest Service determined that the new company is both financially and technically able to perform and fulfill the terms of the original contract," said Mike Williams, Kaibab National Forest supervisor.
The Forest Service's contract with Pioneer Forest Products, signed in May 2012, included the thinning of 300,000 acres over 10 years. That agreement, the largest stewardship contract in Forest Service history, has now been transferred to Good Earth Power.
The 4FRI project spans 2.4 million acres within the Kaibab, Coconino, Tonto and Apache-Sitgreaves national forests. The goal of the project is to restore ecological resilience within the forests.
Jason Rosamond with Good Earth Power described the company as "a global organization with a main focus on sustainable development."
The company plans to use local loggers and mills to complete work on the initial task orders. Down the road, Good Earth plans to build a mill in Winslow, as well as locate additional pellet mills throughout the four forests. Eventually, Good Earth hopes to build a power plant to convert the natural biomass from the project into biofuels.
"We think this thing can actually change the entire region, and we hope it becomes something that is a model for the entire country to look at and a different way of doing things," Rosamond said.
Rosamond added that the company gives half of its worldwide profits to communities where it works by supporting healthcare, education and small enterprise.
Marlin Johnson of Pioneer explained why the company chose to transfer the 4FRI contract to Good Earth after working for four years to acquire it. He said Pioneer depended on the USDA Forest Service contract to be used as collateral for development loans.
"Use of this basic strategy was common in the venture capital business. But it changed gradually in the last few years and has now completely evaporated with the change in the economy," Johnson said. "Now hard equity is required and none of the dozen or so financing proposals had that ability, leading to our frustrations as one after another of these proposals has backed out."
He added that Good Earth will still accomplish many of the same goals Pioneer had for the project.
"The original team is leaving this original concept tied to 4FRI," he said. "We feel very good leaving 4FRI in good hands with Good Earth Power."
Forest restoration under the 4FRI contract has already started. The Forest service issued the first task order for the treatment of 932 acres on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in April 2013, and work is almost finished.
The Forest Service recently issued the following task orders to continue the 4FRI work:
1,307 acres on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest on Sept. 9,
4,400 acres on the Kaibab National Forest on Sept. 12,
952 acres on the Tonto National Forest on Sept. 16, and
7,619 acres on the Coconino National Forest on Sept. 16.
First Four Forest Restoration Initiative project likely to begin in June
Forest Service awards 4FRI contract
Contractor selected for largest ever forest stewardship contract
4FRI environmental impact statement clears way for forest thinning
Pioneer Forest Products remains on track to beginning forest thinning project
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Tune In To Disney Infinity Next On Tuesday 1st March
Disney Interactive Studios has announced that they will broadcast the first Disney Infinity Next, a presentation that promises “an update on what’s coming next for Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition.”
That will air at 10am PT (6pm GMT) on Tuesday 1st March, and will see Disney Infinity general manager and senior vice president John Blackburn and vice president of production John Vignocchi share what surprises are in store for fans of the toys-to-life game.
We know that the Marvel Battlegrounds Play Set Pack will launch next month, releasing in North America on March 15th and across Europe on March 25th. That promises to add a four-player, arcade-style brawler that will see you battling across eight arenas, and will be accompanied by a new Captain America – The First Avenger figure.
As to what lies beyond that, we’ll have to tune in to find out!
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Home Newsroom Hood: CU landscape has never been stronger
Hood: CU landscape has never been stronger
NCUA Chairman Rodney Hood lauded the credit union industry while discussing regulatory challenges and fintech pressures during a "Fireside Chat," hosted by the Cato Institute Wednesday. The chat – part of the 5th annual "Financial Inclusion: The Cato Summit on Financial Regulation" – featured other financial regulators, including FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams and representatives from the CFPB and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Also Wednesday, reports indicated that Hood responded to recent banker attacks challenging the NCUA's oversight authority in light of the New York taxi medallion crisis. Hood said that ridesharing services are "a technological disruption whose impact was as severe as it was uncontrolled," and indicated that the NCUA will tighten supervision of credit unions who hold high concentrations of one particular type of loan. NAFCU defended the credit union industry to lawmakers following the banker attacks.
At the Cato event - attended by NAFCU's Sarah Jacobs, regulatory and legislative assistant - Hood noted that regulation needs to be "effective but not excessive," when asked about the agency's regulatory approach. He acknowledged that burdensome regulations can prevent credit unions from achieving their mission. He also discussed his individual regulatory agenda, which includes the need for infrastructure to protect credit union data while also encouraging credit unions to look at fintech and innovation as a framework.
In regards to fintech, Hood highlighted ways in which credit unions are using technology to reach underserved populations. NAFCU acknowledges that fintech can produce real benefits to consumers; however, the association has urged lawmakers and regulators to ensure a level playing field between fintech companies and financial institutions, from data security to consumer protection.
Hood was also asked about including credit unions under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Hood stated that the CRA was a "punitive measure" put in place because of banks' redlining, and defended credit unions' efforts to help people without being forced to do so by Congress. NAFCU has strongly opposed extending CRA regulations to credit unions.
Hood also discussed charter modernization efforts, specifically mentioning that many credit unions are equipped to serve low income underserved areas but cannot due to chartering, as well as issues related to the Bank Secrecy Act and payday alternative loans.
NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger met with Hood last month to discuss priorities for the agency and Berger has previously outlined several regulatory priorities that the association would like the board to consider.
CFPB Deputy Director Brian Johnson, who also spoke at yesterday's event, pledged that the agency will provide more guidance to both consumers and the market about its approach to the law.
The CFPB announced that it will host the first of a symposia series, to clarify "abusive" under unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP).
NAFCU has long advocated for the bureau to issue specific guidance on prohibited practices so financial institutions have more clarity on this issue. Last year, NAFCU again asked the bureau to provide guidance to clarify the UDAAP standard.
The NAFCU Journal: How One Credit Union Is Using E-signatures to Serve Underbanked Communities
The NAFCU Journal: The Future is Now
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Pharmacol Res. 2010 Jul;62(1):42-7. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2010.01.006. Epub 2010 Jan 18.
A possibility of nutriceuticals as an anti-aging intervention: activation of sirtuins by promoting mammalian NAD biosynthesis.
Imai S1.
Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8103, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. imaishin@wustl.edu
Aging science has recently drawn much attention, and discussions on the possibility of anti-aging medicine have multiplied. One potential target for the development of anti-aging drugs is the SIR2 (silent information regulator 2) family of NAD-dependent deacetylases/ADP-ribosyltransferases, called "sirtuins." Sirtuins regulate many fundamental biological processes in response to a variety of environmental and nutritional stimuli. In mammals, the mammalian SIR2 ortholog SIRT1 has been most studied, and small molecule SIRT1 activators (STACs), including a plant-derived polyphenolic compound resveratrol, have been developed. On the other hand, sirtuin activity is regulated by NAD biosynthetic pathways, and nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) plays a critical role in the regulation of mammalian sirtuin activity. Recent studies have provided a proof of concept for the idea that nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), the NAMPT reaction product, can be used as a nutriceutical to activate SIRT1 activity. Based on these recent findings, the possibility of sirtuin-targeted nutriceutical development will be discussed.
Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
10.1016/j.phrs.2010.01.006
The de novo and salvage NAD biosynthetic pathways in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Pnc1, Npt1, Nma1 and Nma2, Qns1, and Qpt1 are nicotinamidase, nicotinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase, nicotinic acid mononucleotide adenylyltransferase 1 and 2, NAD synthetase, and quinolinic acid phosphoribosyltransfease, respectively. This pathway is also conserved in C. elegans, Drosophila and other invertebrates. Nic, nicotinamide; NA, nicotinic acid; NaMN, nicotinic acid mononucleotide.
A possibility of nutriceuticals as an anti-aging intervention: Activation of sirtuins by promoting mammalian NAD biosynthesis
Pharmacol Res. ;62(1):42-47.
NAD biosynthetic pathways from nicotinamide and nicotinic acid in mammals. The de novo pathway from tryptophan is not shown in this scheme. These pathways, are conserved throughout vertebrates. Nicotinamide is the main precursor for NAD biosynthesis in mammals. NPT, NAMPT, and NMNAT are nicotinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase, nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase, and nicotinamide/nicotinic acid mononucleotide adenylyltransferase, respectively. Multiple enzymes break NAD down to nicotinamide and ADP-ribose, but only sirtuins are shown in this scheme. Nic, nicotinamide; NA, nicotinic acid; NaMN, nicotinic acid mononucleotide; NMN, nicotinamide mononucleotide.
Sirtuin-targeted nutriceutical and pharmaceutical anti-aging interventions. Whereas small molecule sirtuin activators (STACs) aim to treat pathological aspects of aging as pharmaceutical drugs, key NAD intermediates, such as nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and nicotinamide riboside (NR), can be used to manage physiological aspects of aging and prevent functional declines in particular cell types, including pancreatic β cells and neurons, as nutriceuticals. See text for details.
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This blog essentially briefs us around a moving soul who lives in Marietta, Georgia. We are discussing <b><a href="https://desk.zoho.com/portal/bsthelpsupport/kb/articles/william-gilbert-lightner-how-the-love-for-animals-made-him-a-hero">Willi;moreThis blog essentially briefs us around a moving soul who lives in Marietta, Georgia. We are discussing <b><a href="https://desk.zoho.com/portal/bsthelpsupport/kb/articles/william-gilbert-lightner-how-the-love-for-animals-made-him-a-hero">William Gilbert Lightner</a></a> who is well known for sparing local creatures who happen to be in serious condition. He devoted his life in this since one day he saw three Labrador puppies that were scanning for sustenance close to the waste. He was baffled seeing it. Later he opened a creature protect 'Lightner's safeguard shield'. Oh my goodness an intriguing thing about William, that he for the most part keeps 3 bottles with him, as he could nourish any creature on the streets. Individuals in the city couldn't care less about these puppies, they let them wander in the city. Lightner says that 'Consider the possibility that the general population are let out in the summers that too without water.' He even fills in as a sound designer at this home studio and more often than not works with a few artists from the place where he grew up.
Going to his family, at that point he had a canine in his youth days 'Murphy' who was skilled to him on his birthday. He resembled his family to him and <b><a href="https://www.geni.com/people/William-Gilbert-Lightner/6000000069543391073">William Gilbert Lightner</a></b> went into minor wretchedness after he passed away. William has got music from his dad, as he was a Jazz Player. Prior William used to loathe music however later he even began to appreciate music. less
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This blog essentially briefs us around a moving soul who lives in Marietta, Georgia. We are discussing <b><a href="https://desk.zoho.com/portal/bsthelpsupport/kb/articles/william-gilbert-lightner-how-the-love-for-animals-made-him-a-hero">William Gilbert Lightner</a></a> who is well known for sparing local creatures who happen to be in serious condition. He devoted his life in this since one day he saw three Labrador puppies that were scanning for sustenance close to the waste. He was baffled seeing it. Later he opened a creature protect 'Lightner's safeguard shield'. Oh my goodness an intriguing thing about William, that he for the most part keeps 3 bottles with him, as he could nourish any creature on the streets. Individuals in the city couldn't care less about these puppies, they let them wander in the city. Lightner says that 'Consider the possibility that the general population are let out in the summers that too without water.' He even fills in as a sound designer at this home studio and more often than not works with a few artists from the place where he grew up.
Going to his family, at that point he had a canine in his youth days 'Murphy' who was skilled to him on his birthday. He resembled his family to him and <b><a href="https://www.geni.com/people/William-Gilbert-Lightner/6000000069543391073">William Gilbert Lightner</a></b> went into minor wretchedness after he passed away. William has got music from his dad, as he was a Jazz Player. Prior William used to loathe music however later he even began to appreciate music.
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EPA Fines Hanford Contractor For Asbestos Violations
by Northwest News Network Oct. 21, 2013 4:57 p.m.
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The U.S. Department of Energy faces a $115,000 fine for the way a contractor handled asbestos at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington.
The alleged violations happened during building demolitions in 2009 and 2010 when federal stimulus money sped-up deconstruction projects.
Dennis Faulk, a manager with the EPA, says the federal contractor failed to document and label truck shipments of asbestos debris. “The people handling the disposal end of the operations are not aware of certain hazards. And so if they had known that they would have handled the waste a little bit differently.”
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'As Trump, the likely Republican nominee, assured the American people that there was, in fact, 'no problem' with the size of his package, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un made a nuclear bomb threat against the U.S. and South Korea. Kim said the country's 'nuclear warheads need to be ready for use at any time,' responding angrily to recent sanctions by the U.S. intended to cripple North Korea's nuclear program. And meanwhile, the most significant refugee crisis in Europe since World War II approached its boiling point as 10,000 people were sleeping in tents around a refugee camp in Greece that can only take in 2,000.' AND 'In other news, a new video from ISIS surfaced on Thursday showing an orphanage where the group claims to be training children as the next generation of jihadi fighters. Iran invited the American company Boeing to discuss modernizing its fleet of aircrafts -
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'You Know You Want This' Takes Risks On Every Level Kristin Roupenian went viral with her New Yorker short story "Cat Person." And that story is in her new collection, but she goes much further, with genre switches, shock endings, even a fairy tale.
'You Know You Want This' Takes Risks On Every Level
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You Know You Want This
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Popularity is a strange thing. It's distinct from fame; not many of us have first-hand experience with the latter, but we've all seen the former up close. The Internet is collapsing that distinction, but it's also created a new form of popularity. We react to a viral tweet or video, or to the century's first viral short story, the way we once treated our high school's mean girls, with a combination of admiration and criticism: She's so great and she's not so special. Kristen Roupenian's New Yorker short story "Cat Person," which dominated literary conversation for the last month of 2017, made her popular. Her debut collection, You Know You Want This, demonstrates that her work is special.
You Know You Want This is very good. For many readers, it may prove deceptive as well. This has happened before. When "Cat Person" went viral, many readers treated it as an essay, or as thinly veiled autobiography. This provoked a discussion about how readily we assume women's writing comes from experience, not imagination — a phenomenon Virginia Woolf wrote about in A Room of Her Own, and related to what critic Joanna Russ called "the double standard of content" in her 1983 book How to Suppress Women's Writing. In the same book, Russ wrote about what I might call the double standard of style: The idea that if a sentence or a story is easy to read, it must have been easy to write. This, of course, is false.
Roupenian's stories are extremely easy to read. She's worked out a way to write short stories that have no stopping points. They build steadily and discursively, and even the stories that jump years or decades seem to happen all in one breath. The flirtation in "Cat Person" emerges so swiftly, so naturally, that even the story's protagonist can't look away. This is, perhaps, another reason why the story provoked a wave of double-standarding. "Cat Person" contains no signs of the meticulous care with which it's built, and neither do the other stories in You Know You Want This.
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The other stories in You Know You Want This, for their part, contain little sign of "Cat Person." To my mind, "Cat Person" was observant nearly to the point of being precious. Alone, it's a pleasure to read, but a collection full of similar stories would shine hard enough to be blinding. Thankfully, You Know You Want This is looser than that. Roupenian is catholic in the voices she chooses, and the genres she deploys. The collection's opener, "Bad Boy," slides from G-chat conversational to film noir. "Sardines," two stories later, is full-blown horror story in tone and content, turning a birthday-party game into a dark metamorphosis. The latter is more successful than the former, but both stories take confident steps into terrain "Cat Person" never surveyed.
I worried, before reading You Know You Want This, that the popularity of "Cat Person" might inhibit Roupenian's confidence. It would be understandable if Roupenian, fearing what Joanna Russ calls "the myth of the isolated achievement," produced a collection of Cat People. Instead, she took risks on every level. There are genre switches, shock endings, even a fairy tale. There's plenty of superficially risky sexual content: submission, humiliation, knives. The collection's truest risk, though, is its directness. Roupenian is here to write straight-ahead stories about the erotics of power, and how better to do that than blood lust?
To my mind, "Cat Person" was observant nearly to the point of being precious. Alone, it's a pleasure to read, but a collection full of similar stories would shine hard enough to be blinding.
Take "Biter," whose protagonist, Ellie, yearns to bite her male co-workers. Biting will bring her sexual gratification — Roupenian makes that clear — but not as a prelude to sex. Ellie wants the pleasure she found as a kindergartener "tiptoeing behind Robbie Kettrick while he was standing at the craft table, smugly stacking blocks. Everything is normal, quiet, boring, and then here comes Ellie — CHOMP! Now Robbie Kettrick is screaming like a baby and everyone is scrambling and yelling, and Ellie is no longer just a little girl but a wild creature pacing the halls of the preschool, sowing chaos and destruction in her wake."
This is blunt, fun, evocative writing. The double standard of style would tell us there's something wrong with that. The double standard of content would tell us that biting is not the subject of great fiction, anyway. Per the latter, Ellie should have a more oblique desire for power. Per the former, her desire is fine, but not that onomatopoetic CHOMP! The popularity paradox would tell us that "Biter" is enjoyable, but that doesn't make it special. Wrong. By any metric — craftsmanship, intelligence, addictiveness — Roupenian's stories are excellent. Her blood lust will take her far.
Lily Meyer is a writer and translator living in Washington, D.C.
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Answering America with Major Edward J. "Jim" Land Jr.
by Ashley Re - Thursday, January 10, 2019
Answering America is an interview-style series highlighting the leaders supporting Friends of NRA, The NRA Foundation, and the programs they fund. Learn about these high-profile influencers from the world of firearms and the shooting sports—in their own words. This edition of the Q&A features retired USMC Major Edward J. "Jim" Land Jr.
Known as the father of the modern U.S. Marine Corps sniping program, former NRA Secretary and retired USMC Major Edward J. “Jim” Land Jr. has spent his life in service to the Constitution, freedom and the American way of life. Major Land has partnered with the Friends of NRA program to create a one-of-a-kind firearm, which will help secure our Second Amendment rights through fundraising.
Share your first recollection of using a firearm. How old were you and who taught you how to shoot?
I was four years old the first time I shot a firearm, with the help of my mother and father. One of my first memorable shooting experiences was at the age of six, when my Dad took me on my first squirrel hunt. We camped out, built a fire and had some hot dogs, making a lasting impression on a young boy.
Why do you think it is important to protect our Second Amendment rights?
Protecting our Second Amendment rights is one of the most critical aspects of maintaining our country and survival. It is one of the most important rights that protects all others. History has shown that when a country loses their individual right to own a firearm they also lose many of the freedoms that we still enjoy in the United States. I fear if we lose our Second Amendment rights, we would see our country deteriorate worse than it already has.
What is your best secret to success?
Hard work. Coming from the Midwest and from a farm, being brought up that way, you were judged by how hard of a worker you were. If you weren’t a hard worker, you didn’t make it. Working hard to accomplish your goals was instilled in me at a young age. I would credit my upbringing and willingness to work hard, which have lead me to the success I have achieved.
What made you want to partner with Friends of NRA and create the custom Saber M700?
At first I was hesitant, but I knew it would prove to be a benefit to the Friends of NRA program. I believe strongly in the mission with which I have been involved for some time. I knew it would help raise funds which are needed to support many great shooting sports programs.
At what age did you know you wanted to do something remarkable?
I don’t believe I ever thought that way. But, I remember what my mother used to say: “If you want to hear God laugh, just tell him your plans.” So, I never told him my plans.
What makes this firearm unique? Why did you pick certain specifications of the firearm?
When approached about this project, I was adamant that if I was going to put my name on it, I wanted it to be right. I embraced this project when I learned that my trusted friend and gunsmith Gary Gregory, a retired Marine master sergeant, was consulting and inspecting each rifle to ensure they met the quality and desired performance standards. Gregory was instrumental in developing the Marine M40-A1 Sniper Rifle, and I fully trusted his experience. Each of these rifles have been individually customized and finely tuned. I personally shot each rifle to ensure they performed at a 100 yard minimum 5-shot MOA group. I was impressed at the overall consistency of each rifle. Each of these 50 rifles have undergone individual accurizing with features not available from an ‘off the shelf’ production rifle. I am proud of this project and for these rifles to bear my name. They also shoot great!
Describe the most rewarding experience in your career.
One of my most rewarding experiences was my two years as a drill instructor at the Marine base in San Diego, Calif. Back in the 1950s, many newly enlisted men were there because that was their last opportunity to become useful citizens. You would get a platoon of approximately 70 men, some couldn’t even read or write. To see the transformation and changes in these men was most rewarding. Throughout both my military career and with the NRA, getting people on the range and introducing new shooters to the sport have been most satisfying. As an NRA instructor, it is something that I still find rewarding today.
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How to be a better board director | 15 minutes with... Roger Parry CBE, Uber NED
Recently appointed Non-Executive Director of Uber, Roger Parry, shares his advice and experiences having held senior executive positions at numerous PLC and large companies throughout his career.
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Roger Parry CBE is a media and technology entrepreneur with extensive experience of corporate leadership. He is currently chair of Oxford Metrics plc and YouGov plc. He was first appointed as a board Director in 1991 (Aegis plc), CEO of a listed company in 1995 (More Group plc) and as a non-executive Chairman in 2001 (Future Publishing plc). As the CEO of Clear Channel International (1998-2006) he ran a business with 9,000 staff in 63 countries with annual sales of US$ 2.5 billion. He has led boards of publicly listed, private equity and not-for-profit organizations. Roger has experience in technology, marketing, media and consultancy. He is the author of six books, a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University and was appointed CBE in 2014.
Roger was recently appointed through Nurole’s platform as a non-executive director on the board of Uber London Limited.
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What’s the best professional advice you ever received?
During my formal McKinsey training, I remember being told “you learn a lot more when you’re not talking”. You can never underestimate the importance of developing good listening skills, whether you are a consultant or a company chair.
Outside of board meetings, how should a NED best interact with the companies whose boards they sit on?
Use the company’s and their competitors’ product or service. Listen to other people using it so you can provide the board with insights. Doing this is much easier for non-executives than executives of the company who can’t distance themselves in the same way.
What’s your best advice for a new board chair?
Make sure you really understand the economic model of the business - understand what really drives success in that business. Avoid making the assumption that the businesses you’ve worked with and understood before, are good surrogates for the board you’re joining. Instead, you must develop a clear understanding from the bottom up - read books or whatever written or video material is available about the company, talk to the executives and the analysts and do your own due diligence, no matter how experienced you may be.
Best advice on what a board considering hiring an independent director should look for?
The board, including the executives, need to have an open discussion to define the specific skill sets that they are trying to bring on. Sometimes it’s easy. For example if you need a new audit chair, they probably need to be a qualified accountant, preferably have been a CFO and ideally have been an audit chair. When it is less straightforward, it’s a case of identifying where the knowledge and skills gaps are within the board which will be required to achieve your strategic aims - e.g. Asia, Marketing, Digital, best practice in HR or something else? That gives you a candidate pool from which to select based on chemistry; you need to know what fit looks like, the whole board need to coalesce around what they are looking for, both executives and independent directors. That’s something you can only do in person.
What has characterised the best boards you have worked with?
Diversity - I don’t mean of gender or ethnicity, but cognitive diversity. What you don’t want is a group of people who think the same way, with the same mental models about how the board works. You want people who have had different experiences: sectoral, functional, geographic, and funding environment diversity are a few examples. I don’t believe NEDs need domain expertise, though it’s difficult for a chair to do the role well without relevant industry knowledge.
Also, boards where everybody gets airtime, even if it’s forced on them. The bad boards have individuals who don’t say anything and get frustrated because they feel they are not being heard. Sometimes that means going around the table in sequence asking for thoughts. You just have to be careful to be selective about when you do it or it quickly becomes tiresome.
When have you got it most wrong professionally and what did you learn?
Over-aggressive acquisition policies where we allowed ourselves to be influenced by the fashion of the stock market and investment community. Acquisitions should be done only when there is industrial logic, not just for financial engineering.
How do you try to make yourself a better board member?
I try to expose myself to a wide range of trends and developments. For example I make a conscious effort to go to industry conferences and visit business in other places (e.g. off to visit San Francisco shortly). I lived in Paris, Rome and New York in the 1980s and 90s and spent some time in Palo Alto in the mid 2000s which changed my perspectives completely. I also work hard to stay abreast of new technology. I’m currently fascinated by Alexa and voice interaction which could have huge ramifications for businesses over the next 5 years.
If you could only pass on one piece of advice, what would it be?
Be a good listener.
Your Nurole Experience
How did you hear about Nurole?
Invited by the founder when it first started.
How have you found the experience as a member?
Seen lots of interesting non-executive roles and joined the board of Uber London through the platform, so not bad!
About You - 10 Question Quick Fire
3 words the person who has worked most with you would use to characterise you?
Creative, impatient, experienced.
Favourite book?
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh.
Favourite restaurant?
The Wolseley for breakfast.
Favourite quote?
“If you have a library and a garden, you have everything you need.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Favourite holiday?
North Vietnam.
Greatest passion?
Anything outdoors.
Favourite app?
Uber - obviously!
Professional achievement of which you are most proud?
Being the business correspondent on the Today programme when I was 24 years old.
When does your alarm go off and how many hours of sleep do you have on average?
6.30am (7-8 hours sleep).
Best idea for a £10,000 investment?
Oxford Metrics plc.
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Independent Adviser - Customer Experience Committee
HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority, it‘s one of the biggest organisations in the UK, collecting over £600 billion a year in revenue. Through Nurole they sought to appoint four Customer Experience Committee members to help them undertake one of the biggest digital change programmes in Europe.
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Within one month, Nurole surfaced four ideal candidates including; Leonie Foster, Chief Customer & Digital Officer at Dunelm Plc and a former senior marketer at Tesco; Joseph Gordon, recognised as one of the most senior and youngest banking MDs/customer services experts in the UK and CEO/Head of First Direct; as well as Jean-Francois Bessiron, who has over 20 years’ experience in retailing, both online and offline, including senior leadership positions at B&Q, Dixons, Amazon and Groupon.
Jean-Francois Bessiron
Director, Amazon Fresh
(Successful candidate)
"Nurole features a large variety of NED roles from the Non For Profit sector that complement my executive role. The role briefs are very clear, including the specific experiences required to ensure there is a good match. This is further re-enforced throughout the application process."
Leonie Foster
Chief Customer & Digital Officer, Dunelm Group PLC
"I haven’t come across anything that is quite as open as Nurole is. I think it’s clever, very transparent and it accelerates the process in the way that traditional routes don’t… You don’t have visibility of a spectrum of opportunities that you can look at and judging what you’re most interested in. It’s innovative and refreshing."
Joseph Gordon
CEO/ Head of, first direct
"This position came just at the right time, as I was looking to broaden my experience, I look forward to using Nurole again in the future. Additionally, I was very impressed by the swiftness and thoroughness of the application process and the professionalism by the Nurole team."
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Our view: Licence scrap turns us all off
By Tom Murphy @TomMurphyTM Audience and Content Editor
THE BBC has not won any admirers with its plans that free TV licences for over 75s will be scrapped from June next year – a decision deliberately foisted on it by the Government.
Low-income pensioners aged over 75 who claim Pension Credit will still be eligible for a free licence; equivalent to 1.5 million people.
Those aged 75, who currently enjoy a free licence but do not claim Pension Credit, do not need to do anything as TV licensing will be writing to them in due course and they are covered until May 31 next year.
The message from Age Concern is that those over 75-year-olds who do not claim Pension Credit should have a go at applying as they may find they are eligible for this benefit – and bag a free TV licence to boot!
The place to do so is either by calling 0800 99 1234 or visiting www.gov.uk/pension-credit/eligibility.
It is estimated that the cost of the current free-for-all scheme will soar to £745 million by the year 2020-21.
There will be undoubtedly cases where well-off over 75-year-olds are getting something they could comfortably afford, although it’s hardly much of a perk in later life.
Could the sums be better spent?
This decision could well be reversed. It seems highly unlikely that we will see a situation where over-75s are dragged into court for not having a TV licence.
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RSPCA braced for a ‘hectic hedgehog’ month as calls spike in July
By Eleanor Ovens @NWEMLive Reporter
RISE: RSPCA braced for a ‘hectic hedgehog’ month
July looks set to be ‘hectic hedgehog’ month for the RSPCA after calls about the prickly creatures peaked during this time last year.
From a total of 10,644 calls about hedgehogs made to the RSPCA’s national helpline throughout 2018, the number of calls spiked in July at 1867.
Calls from the North West of England totalled 14,712 in 2018, 257 of which were made in July.
Across 2018, an average of 5.7 hedgehogs per day were admitted to one of the charity’s specialist wildlife centres, but in July, this rose to an average of 12.4 per day.
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Malawi army commander inducted into international fellow Hall of Fame
July 1, 2018 Major Paul Chiphwanya -MDF 5 Comments
The Malawi Defence Force (MDF) Commander, General Griffin Supuni Phiri is the latest General Officer to have beeen inducted into the International Fellow Hall of Fame (IFHOF) at a ceremony that took place at Sofitel Rabat Jardin Des Roses Hotel in Rabat, Morocco on 26 June 2018.
Commander General Griffin Supuni-Phiri: It is a great honour
Commander General Griffin Supuni-Phiri inducted into the International Fellow Hall of Fame
Speaking during the ceremony, the current President of the United States of America National Defence University (NDU), Vice Admiral Fritz Roegge said that the IFHOF is designed to recognize the outstanding international NDU graduates who have risen to the most senior leadership positions in their countries’ armed forces or governments.
“The IFHOF is a prestigious and visible means of honouring the NDU graduates who have attained, through merit, the highest positions in their nation’s armed forces or who have held equivalent positions in government or multinational organizations. General Phiri has certainly done that” he said.
“While I am confident that each of you takes from NDU the benefits of a rigorous academic experience, I am equally confident that what you give to us, your views and perspective are so much more valuable. So General Phiri now sits here representing the alumni of the NDU as he gets inducted into the IFHOF,” he added.
Vice Admiral Roegge also mentioned that NDU is priviledged to be entrusted with so many talented professionals and it is not surprising that they go on to achieve professional success during their careers in their countries.
“Today General Phiri joins more than one hundred of his fellow alumni who have reached positions of the highest distinction in their respective fields as Ambassadors, Ministers, Chiefs of Services and Chiefs of Defence Forces,” he said.
“General Phiri, your service has brought great credit upon your country, your classmates, your fellow alumni and to NDU as a whole. Thank you for your years of dedicated service to your country and to our collective partnerships.” Vice Admiral Roegge concluded.
In his own words, General Phiri, a graduate of the NDU Class of 2005, said that NDU helped him a lot in shaping him to become what he is today.
“Through the education in military strategy, foreign culture and strategic thinking, among many others. I find it easier to deal with situations perceived to be difficult in a mature manner. This is because the NDU broadened my understanding of key strategic areas and enhanced my leadership skills.” He said.
“Besides transforming my personal development. I must confess that the course also helped me understand the world better; how it is interconnected, how national and international politics work, and how to handle diplomacy issues in a professional manner.” He added.
The IFHOF was established in in 1999 and recognition of this distinguished status includes inscription of the inductee’s name on the IFHOF Plaque to be displayed with a photograph, along with other inductees in the IFHOFin Marshall Hall at the NDU campus in Washington, a Certificate and a Hall of Fame Memento.Members of the IFHOF are recognized in a formal ceremony on NDU campus. However, for the first time in history, this IFHOF Induction ceremony took place outside the NDU Campus. General Griffin Spoon Phiri is the 63rd NDU International Fellow and the first Malawian to be inducted.
General Phiri joins other reputable and high profile individuals as IFHOF inductee. These include Honourable Collin Powel, the former US Secretary of State, Ambassador B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations at the UN Department of Political Affairs, Rear Admiral Mohamed Sane, Chief of Staff of Senegalese Navy,General LamineCisse, former Special Representative to the UN Secretary General and Executive Director of the UN Office in Central Africa Republic and The US Senator and former US Presidential candidate John Maccain from Arizoma.
In General Phiri’s Class of 2005, the following were already inducted into the IFHOF: Major General Kenrick Maharaj, Chief of Defence Staff, Trinidad & Tobago, Major General Alojz Steiner, Chief of General Staff of Slovenian Armed Forces,Major General RaimondsGraube, Commander of the National Armed Forces of Republic of Latvia, Vice Admiral Tomasz Mathea,Commander-in-Chief of Polish Navy, Major General EdvardasMažeikis, Commander of Lithuanian Air Force andVice Admiral Raymond Griggs, Chief of Australian Navy.
During the Induction Ceremony, the following citation was read when a certificate was being presented to General Griffin Spoon Phiri, “The United States National Defence University, Fort McNair, Washington, DC., in recognition of outstanding achievement, hereby inducts into the United States National Defence University International Fellows Hall of Fame General Griffin Spoon Phiri, NWC 2005, Commander of the Malawi Defence Force, by order of the Vice Admiral Fritz Roegge, USN, 16th President, National Defence University, dated the 26th Day of June 2018”
The IFHOF Induction ceremony was one of the activities during the NDU Global Alumni Summit that started from 25 – 29 June 2018 whose objective was to enhance the vital and vibrant alumni network of security professionals, reaching every corner of the planet and comprising 140 nations. This year’s NDU Global Alumni Summit theme was “Combating Terrorism and Building Partner Capacity” and attracted participants from USA, Tunisia, Thailand, Senegal, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Romania, Botswana, Malawi and the host Morocco among others.
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Congratulations General. You have come from far and you deserve it. God speed
Congratulations our own soldier ! May God bless you. Your achievement tells the world that Malawi has men and women high integrity and substance . Malawi is best!
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Civil Term, Queens Supreme Court
Civil Term - Part Rules, Part 15, Courtroom 41
Justice Janice A. Taylor
88-11 Sutphin Blvd.
Chambers Ph: (718) 298-1194
Courtroom Ph: (718) 298-1110
Absent exigent circumstances, telephone calls will be entertained by chambers only on Mondays or Fridays from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm. No calls concerning pending matters will be entertained without all attorneys and Pro-Se litigants on a conference call with chambers, other than for scheduling purposes. Letters which require action, or which have not been copied to all parties or their attorneys, if they have one, will not be entertained. Litigants should refrain from contacting chambers by fax without express permission of the Court.
Preliminary Conference | Orders to Show Cause | Temporary Restraining Orders | Motion Procedures | Withdrawls of Motions, Settlements and Discontinuances
Preliminary Conference
A Preliminary Conference will only take place:
(1) after written Request for a Preliminary Conference is filed with the Clerk's Office (Room 140) in compliance with Uniform Rules §202.12(a) (or an appropriate notice is filed in malpractice, or certiorari case pursuant to Uniform Rules §202.56, §202.16 and §202.60), or
(2) upon a specific directive by Justice JANICE A. TAYLOR. Preliminary conferences in Justice Taylor's cases will be held on Tuesdays before a court appointed referee in the P.C. Part. Litigants should refer to the rules of the Preliminary Conference Part for further direction.
Orders to Show Cause
Applicants seeking judicial review, signature and fixing of a return date of Orders to Show Cause must comply with Uniform Rule 202.7(d).
The submitted Order to Show Cause must contain a correct fax number on the moving papers. Following review and signature, or denial, by the Justice, of any Orders to Show Cause not submitted as Emergency applications, a notice as to the status of the application will be faxed to the applicant or movant. Orders to Show Cause submitted as an Emergency may only be presented by an attorney or by a Pro-Se litigant. A personal appearance is required for all Orders to Show Cause submitted as an Emergency. Reply affirmations or affidavits will only be permitted at the discretion of the Court.
Proof of service, as directed by the Court, of the Order to Show Cause must be presented at the calendar call on the return date of the application. In the case of an Order to Show Cause presented in an electronically signed action, a working copy of the proof of service is to be presented at the calendar call.
Temporary Restraining Orders
Except as hereinafter provided, when an Order to Show Cause presented for signature makes a provision for a temporary stay or other interim relief pending determination of the motion, the party seeking such relief must give notice of at least one business day, said notice consisting of at least 24 hours, to his or her adversary of the date and time when, and the location where, the order to show cause will be presented and the relief being requested. To the extent practicable, that notice must be accompanied by a copy of the papers the party seeking relief intends to present to the court for filing. If notice has been given, the Order to Show Cause must be accompanied by an affidavit or affirmation stating the time, place, by whom given, the manner of such notification, including the manner in which the proposed filing was served, and, to the extent known, the position taken by the opposing party. If notice has not been given, and/or a copy of the papers the party seeking relief intends to present to the court for filing has not been served, the affidavit or affirmation shall state whether the applicant has made an attempt to give notice and/or make such service and the reasons for the lack of success. If the applicant is unwilling to give notice and/or to make the required service, the affidavit or affirmation shall state the reasons for such unwillingness.
If notice is given by telephone, the telephone number must be included in the above-referenced affidavit or affirmation submitted by the party seeking interim relief. If notice is given by fax, confirmation of the fax must be provided. Notification by e-mail will not be permitted.
An Order to Show Cause providing for a temporary stay must be personally presented for signature by the party's attorney or by the party if such party is proceeding Pro-Se. Where the adversary has appeared for presentation of the application, the party seeking relief and/or the party opposing the relief sought may request the opportunity to present argument to Court. Such request shall be determined in the sole discretion of the Court.
Motion Procedures
Justice Taylor's regular motion day is TUESDAY. The first call of the calendar is at 9:30 A.M. The second call is at 10:30 A.M.
All motions shall be made returnable in Part 15, Courtroom 41 on the aforementioned day and time of the week and be subject to the procedures stated below.
Moving papers, with an affidavit of good faith where required by Uniform Rule 202.7, shall be filed in the IAS Motion Support Office (Room 140) at least five business days prior to the scheduled return date in order to be placed on the Part motion calendar for the noticed day. Do not send, hand-deliver, mail or overnight moving papers to chambers. Motions may be withdrawn, without prejudice, by the moving party, with or without consent, at any time.
Answering papers will be accepted only during the two calendar calls on the return date in Courtroom 41. Do not mail or forward opposition, answering or responsive papers to Chambers. "Supplemental" affirmations,"further" affirmations, "sur-reply" affirmations and "amended" applications will not be accepted or considered. Cross-motions must be timely filed pursuant to the C.P.L.R. along with proof of payment of the statutory motion fee in order to be accepted and considered. Cross-motions will be considered responsive in nature. Motions marked "final" will be taken on submission on the "final" return date with all papers which have been received by that date, without further adjournment. No papers will be accepted by chambers or considered by the Court after the motion is marked "submitted" at the calendar call.
On the return date, the motion(s) will be submitted, adjourned (see below), or conferenced by the Justice, or her designee, or otherwise treated pursuant to the discretion of the Justice. (Ruling on applications will also be made at this time.) Courtesy copies of moving and answering papers, other than working copies of papers in electronically filed actions, need not be provided.
On the return date, a briefing schedule may be issued with dates for responsive papers if an adjournment is requested. In the event that such a schedule is issued, all parties must comply with the schedule. The failure to serve responsive papers in accordance with the briefing schedule shall result in the rejection of those papers on the adjournment date.
All motion papers, including working copies of motions in electronically filed actions, shall have numbered pages and be securely fastened and shall have protruding exhibit tabs and all exhibits annexed thereto shall be preceded by a numbered protruding tab.
All motion papers, cross-motions, responsive papers and exhibits must be printed on only one side of the page. Motion papers, cross-motions and responsive papers may not exceed twenty (20) pages, not inclusive of exhibits. Finally, all submitted motion papers, cross-motions and responsive papers must comply with 22 NYCRR §§202.5, 202.5-a, 202.5-b. , 202.5-bb, to the extent applicable, except where otherwise directed by these Rules.
Resolution of Motions:
In any case where a motion is “marked-off” for non-compliance with these Part Rules, a new motion for the original relief sought may be filed. A motion to restore, renew or reargue is not required.
Copies of motions, applications, decisions or orders will not be sent to counsel or Pro-Se litigants unless deemed necessary by this Court. Decisions or orders can be retrieved online or at the Queens County Clerk’s office located in the Jamaica courthouse, Room 106.
Discovery-Related Motions
(All motions related to discovery, including, but not limited to, motions to compel discovery [C.P.L.R. §3124], punish for failure to disclose [C.P.L.R. §3126], strike actions from the calendar for want of discovery or for a protective order [C.P.L.R. §3103])
A mandatory appearance on discovery-related motions is required by all parties knowledgeable about the case and fully authorized to settle or enter into binding stipulations. Discovery-related motions will be marked off for no appearance by the movant, and responsive papers stricken for lack of appearance by the opposing party. Answering papers will not be accepted from calendar service in lieu of a personal appearance by all counsel. The Court strongly encourages parties to resolve discovery-related motions by stipulation, which will then be "so-ordered" by the Court if the terms are acceptable to the Court. Unresolved discovery-related motions will be conferenced by the Justice, or her designee, at the completion of the second call of the calendar.
Motions to Renew, Reargue or Vacate a Prior Order
Motions seeking reconsideration of a prior order must contain a copy of the Court’s original decision and copies of all papers submitted in support, and in opposition to, the original motion.
Appearances and Adjournments
All other motions, other than discovery-relation motions (see above), will be SUBMITTED for determination, and appearance by counsel or a Pro-se litigant is not required. Service will be permitted to answer the calendar on all non-discovery related motions solely for the purpose of submitting papers. Oral argument will be entertained in extraordinary circumstances, at the discretion of the Justice. Requests for oral argument must be made by stating "Oral Argument Requested" in bold caps above the words "Notice of Motion" in the moving papers or above the words “Affirmation in Opposition” in responsive papers.
Consent adjournments will be upon submission of a stipulation, dated, and personally signed by the attorneys for all parties (print attorney's name below signature). The stipulation should state that the matter is being adjourned "to a date convenient to the Court", and faxed to chambers (718) 298-1128 no later than 5:00 P.M. on the day prior to the return date. The Court will choose the adjourned date for all adjournments, and cannot honor dates chosen by the parties due to scheduling constraints. If the adjournment is not on consent, it must be on application to the Court on the return date - NO ADJOURNMENTS, NOT ON CONSENT, SHALL BE PERMITTED ON ANY MOTION IN AN ACTION UNLESS DIRECTED BY THE JUSTICE AFTER PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND APPLICATION MADE BY COUNSEL.
Except for motions for summary judgment, in no event shall more than TWO (2) adjournments be granted on motions. Motions for summary judgment shall be allowed no more than THREE (3) adjournments to allow all necessary moving papers, cross-motions, opposition papers and replies to be submitted.
The Court requests that members of the bar make every effort to provide their co-counsel and adversaries with advance notice of all applications.
Electronically Filed actions:
On any application in an electronically filed action, a working copy must be submitted at the call of the calendar. However, no responsive working copies will be accepted if working copies of moving papers have not yet been submitted. Each working copy MUST include, firmly affixed to the back of the motion papers, a copy of the confirmation notice received from the NYSCEF site upon the electronic filing of such documents. Failure to present the required working copy at the calendar call on the initial motion date WILL result in the matter being marked off the calendar. A party that has opted out of participation in electronically filed actions will file documents in hard copy which will include, on a separate page firmly affixed
thereto, the “NOTICE OF HARD COPY SUBMISSION–E-FILED CASE” form, which
can be found on the NYSCEF site at https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef.
Stays:
The parties shall notify the Court immediately, in writing, of any stays imposed, other than stays enacted by the signing of a TRO issued by this Justice. Said notification of a stay should include documentary evidence of the enactment of said stay.
The parties shall immediately notify the Court, in writing, of the lifting of any stay, other than stays enacted by the signing of a TRO issued by this Justice. Said notification of the lifting of a stay should include documentary evidence that the stay has been lifted.
Withdrawls of Motions, Settlements and Discontinuances
The movant shall notify the Court immediately, in writing, of the withdrawal of any pending motion or application.
The parties shall notify the Court immediately of the withdrawal of any pending motion or application in the event a matter is settled or discontinued.
Trials:
All counsel must submit to the Court, prior to the commencement of trial, copies of the marked pleadings, the bill of particulars and any orders which resulted from previously decided motions made pursuant to CPLR §3211 or CPLR §3212.
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SOAPBOX; Bugged
By JILL EISENSTADT JAN. 16, 2000
I AM waiting on the stoop for my mother-in-law, Joan, and her friend, named Joan too, when a tickle creeps up the back of my neck. The sweat of anticipation, I assume. This will be their first visit from San Jose to Brooklyn and I worry. Will the kids be nice to them? Why didn't we buy a pullout couch? What are we going to do for a week, let alone this evening? I should have cooked instead of making reservations. I should have washed my hair!
My filthy hair must be the reason I'm raking the back of my neck with the door key. I have dandruff or worse. The stylish Joans will instantly notice I've morphed into one of those drabbed-down moms with mismatched socks and immaculately attired children. But when they arrive, they tell me I look wonderful and compliment the kids on their well-mannered welcome.
''Come in!'' 4-year-old Jane exclaims, scratching her own neck with sidewalk chalk, I assume, to mimic me.
By morning, my neck feels like it's on fire, yet I feel it's my duty to take the Joans somewhere: Ellis Island? The Bronx Zoo's new Congo exhibit? Shopping.
We try on wool coats despite the autumn heat wave. They're all itchy. I'm all itchy. I can't concentrate. Ever since last night's al fresco dinner was wrecked by helicopters spraying malathion on encephalitis-ridden mosquitoes (and our pizza), I've been convinced that what I have on my neck is a bite. Chronic prickliness will progress to stiffness then pain, then perhaps death.
Back home, the kids hardly look up, so intently are they picking through their little doll hair with their little doll combs. All is horribly clarified. As 2-year-old Lena, puts it, ''Barbie has lice.''
Grateful there's no one I recognize in the drugstore, I spend $50 on enough over-the-counter cure for three families. The girls sit more or less calmly in front of the cartoon ''Arthur'' while the Rid seeps into their fair hair. Arthur, an aardvark, has chicken pox. How come he never gets bugs in his head, Jane asks.
Animals don't get lice, I tell her. But then, animals don't get chicken pox either. Anyway, it's time to rinse. It's time to freak out. Lena, because she hates having her hair washed. Jane, because the shampoo somehow drips into her mouth. Me, because it does not work. If anything the parasites seem animated by the chemical. Now, I see and even feel them crawling. When our din sends my mother-in-law in, I find it impossible to report till hours later the louse I pick out of her hairdo. I have no remedy for her. (A later visit to the National Pediculosis web site reveals that the bugs have grown resistant to everything you can find on a drugstore shelf.)
I head for Jane's preschool handbook, which prescribes vacuuming what can't be laundered, bagging what can't be vacuumed, notifying parents of recent playmates, dousing our scalps in whatever grease is in the house and nitpicking, nitpicking, nitpicking. The school upholds a no-nit policy a la Ellis Island. Before re-entry, Jane's scalp must be deemed clean by the Office. There is no such policy for chicken pox.
A $14 bottle of organic, extra-virgin olive oil disappears into our hair as mother-in-law mentions that some of her nephews were recently infested. The parents wrapped up the furniture for a month. She is trying to calm me or perhaps suggest I wrap up the couch on which the girls did headstands last night. Yet all I can hear is her reporting our infestation to the family out west. Soon the whole country would know us as the Lice People.
''Oh, hi, Barbara?'' I rehearse telling our next-door neighbor. ''Just wondering, does Kate, by any chance, seem itchy?''
My husband, Mike, returns home to find me in the basement, weeping over the washing machine full of Beanie Babies. ''I never realized you were so afraid of lice,'' he says and, neither did I. But it's true. I'm terrified to think of bugs laying eggs and sucking blood from the girls' little heads. Of how I'll ever delouse my own impenetrable mane. Of those coats I tried on at the store. One louse can lay 150 nits in a month, the school handout says. I remember poor Tina Mangioni who came back to the fourth grade from a lousy week away with her head shaven and covered by an ill-fitting wig. How we ostracized this unlucky classmate for years.
Let's not go off the deep end, Mike says. In his calm wisdom he'd already called the doctor. Turns out, kids' lice were so utterly common that the demand for the latest treatment had outgrown the supply. We'd have to leave the neighborhood to track down the prescription medicine: malathion.
The druggist scratches his head as he tell us there's strong evidence lice prefer clean hair. He says this, I think, because he notices I can't look him in the eye. At home, we slather on the sticky, alcohol-based insecticide, which will remain on overnight. The smell is overwhelming, like pine tar mixed with gasoline. We're highly flammable.
The nits, which lice literature liken to sesame seeds (ruining my favorite bagel flavor forever), are glued to the hair by louse goo called chitin.
It takes a while to get the technique right. Sometimes it takes a couple of tries. It's tedious, and I wonder whether we should have a hired a professional. (Yes, they exist.) But soon we fall into a rhythm. Mike and friend Joan (both lice-free) work on the kids. Mother-in-law Joan works on me. And vice versa. Out come the predictable jokes: ''Get outta my hair!'' ''Let's go over this with a fine-tooth comb.''
Jane, who shrieks when a fly lands on her shoe, hardly sees this as a crisis. After all, and until now unbeknownst to me, Kate next door has already been deloused twice. With the condition apparently comes status. Besides, Jane adds: ''It's nice. Like the monkeys.''
Well, I am grateful I don't have encephalitis. And as I let the fear and disgust wane, I discover that like running or driving, or any activity that denies eye contact, nitpicking facilitates intimacy. We talk, touch each other, and experience something familiar to those Congo apes up in the Bronx. Be it a test of family bonds or just a social activity; nitpicking has meaning.
That a creature the size of a period could finally put an end to my self-consciousness is, finally, not a bit lousy. I stop worrying what we'll do this week. We'll enjoy the fine weather, nitpicking and visiting with each other. If there's time left over, perhaps we'll look for a pullout couch.
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Iran Nuclear Deal Blues
By Michael Stuart Kelly, April 30, 2018 in Objectivist Living Room
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$$$$$$
This just hit Drudge.
The link goes here:
Netanyahu: Iran Nuclear Deal Is Based on Lies – Here's the Proof
This article includes Bibi's presentation on a YouTube video (it's in English except at the very end):
There is a massive amount of incriminating material. The full text of the presentation is here.
A quote by Bibi from his talk:
Everything you’re about to see, is an exact copy of the original Iranian material.
You may want to know where are the originals? Well, I can say they’re now in a very safe place.
Here’s what the files included: incriminating documents, incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos and more.
We’ve shared this material with the United States, and the United States can vouch for its authenticity. We will also share it with other countries, and we’ll share it with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
If this is true, and at this point, I doubt it will turn out to be false, this will make former President Obama, as the leader of a nation, the biggest putz in human history.
That dude was preparing the way for nuclear winter. Out of evil? No... I don't believe so. Instead, out of incompetence. Out of sheer incompetence.
U.S. Confirms Authenticity of Secret Iran Nuclear Docs, Officials See Game Over for Deal
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2.6 Richter event yesterday in Syria.
Reports are that it was an Iranian ammo/munitions dump that got hit. Reports.
Iran had its way with Syria before Russia came along and wooed her. Iran could have dug holes and placed programs there. This was a big explosion if what we see is only what emerges from a significant detonation depth.
Scott Adams scores Bibi's presentation A+ on the Persuasion Scale.
Visuals A+. Repetition A+. Simple language A+. Fear factor A+. And so on.
There's some talk floating around the mainstream that Bibi's presentation did not persuade the actors in the deal (the crony actors, I should say), but, of course, it was not aimed at persuading them. That would be like giving a presentation to the mob about the evils of prostitution. Imagine how flat that would fall.
Bibi only needs to persuade one person, President Trump, and the rest fall like dominoes. And he already did that piece of persuasion backstage. So I believe his presentation was aimed more at Trump supporters and moderates than anyone else. Why? To keep the talking points of the cronies and bad guys from mucking up the things President Trump is getting ready to do. Trump will be able to point to a large group of people who supports him when things get dicey.
And support him they will. What's more, they will point right to this presentation when sporadically cornered by the gotcha crew with a camera in their faces.
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On 4/30/2018 at 10:39 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
More than incompetence, Michael. Europe and the US got played, all right - but I doubt entirely naively. The appeasement aka "sanction" of evil amounts to further evil. Proof: Iran's military expansionism and belligerent rhetoric have only grown since signing the 'deal'. Not to be underestimated is the Progressivist's wishful belief that you only have to throw enough love and understanding at those threatening you in order to correct their behavior and embrace them into the human village. I.e. Iran was badly 'misunderstood' and 'abused' by the evil West, so what do you expect? - in this book. It's wryly amusing to see the belief being clearly played out on BBC and CNN who are scrambling to uphold the deal, despite all evidence. One pundit said in so many words: "Okay, Iran lied -so what? That's why we need the deal"...
Uh - just maybe because you can't trust a confirmed liar to stick to his promises or word a second time, or any future time? But known "character" isn't a great concern for the Leftist also.
"Has" and "had". Does anyone truly believe Iran had ended all their nuke ambitions and covert operations with a stroke of a pen?
(It didn't hurt either for Obama to get one more opportunity to throw Israel and the region into uncertainty: "vengeful pique" against Netanyahu, Alan Dershowitz observed in one article on another issue).
https://www.timesofisrael.com/derisive-response-to-pms-expose-shows-world-still-refusing-to-get-real-on-iran/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=8b6e7ff631-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-8b6e7ff631-54914065
Michael, First I lost my dollar signs, now I get no heart symbol on my posts. No money, no love.
Are you trying to tell me something?
3 hours ago, anthony said:
Are you trying to tell me something?
Who the hell knows?
This program does things automatically sometimes.
I'm still working on the idea of migrating OL to a different platform and software later. The trouble is how to do that without making a holy mess out of it. So I need to wait until I can pay some major bucks to a top-level coder.
Besides, I have some really cool stuff cooking backstage (not gonna say what yet, though ).
But it will get done.
Ahh, the Progs have it right. I feel the lurv...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-iran-deal-withdrawal-it-should-never-have-come-to-this/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=78bf186dbc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-78bf186dbc-54914065
In the light of self-styled experts and apologists tearing into this recent action on media, I've been considering how keen the P5+1 countries (Federica Mogherini...)would have been to negotiate with and appease Iran - if Iran were a nearby or bordering country which threatened *them* every day? But no, it's only Israel and a few other neighbours at front-line risk - who cares about them? Israel is after all the No.1 cause of Islamist/Iranian hatred against the West - not so? Think back to the Cuban missile crisis. JFK. No free nation will tolerate an openly belligerent ballistic missile-nuclear presence on their doorstep. I make the mistake again, of expecting principles from European leaders. Peace at any cost ... in our time and our location. Infantile fools.
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Alex Jones weighs in on the exchange of fire yesterday between Iranian forces in Syria and Israel
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Iran is sponsoring terrorism around the globe, but I don't think Israel will start a war with them. Retaliatory strikes are in the realm of possibility. And I think a significant chunk of Iran's population would prefer to live in freedom, not a theocratic dictatorship, so the way to affect change is through boycotts, the internet, and sanctions.
Alex is off his rocker.
Israel, Obama and others funded the Arab spring... helped create ISIS...
Israel trying to start a war with Syria and Iran...!
Israel initiated fire - "a provocation" - Iranian bases didn't fire missiles first...
The US is trying to start a war...
None true.
I trust Jones will back off this incendiary conspiracy when he finds out some facts. He even badly underestimates Trump's motives.
Does anyone in media recognize causality, or - what "self-defense" means and entails? The recurrent notion of Israel having imperialist/territorial ambitions is a ludicrous and dangerous fallacy, a cynical inversion of what Iran has been obviously doing, itself.
(By the way, the US should not be embroiled in this skirmish - or conflict. Israel does NOT want war, but can handle it alone).
33 minutes ago, anthony said:
I trust Jones will back off this incendiary conspiracy when he finds out some facts.
Edited May 10, 2018 by william.scherk
Added Haaretz story and link. Israel does not usually confirm or deny military action in Syria.
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Varsity scores and top performers for Oct. 27
Today’s high school varsity scores and top performers:
Class 4A, District 2
at Sperling Sports Complex
Team scores: 1. Oviedo, 26; 2. Lake Mary, 56; 3. Lyman, 109; 4. Lake Brantley, 123; 5. DeLand, 130; 6. Hagerty, 164; 7. Winter Springs, 190; 8. Spruce Creek, 188; 9. Lake Howell, 263; 10. Seminole, 283; 11. Orange City University, 317
Individuals: 1. Angel Vicioso, Oviedo, 15:34.60; 2. Kayamo Galloway, Oviedo, 15:35.10; 3. Mamush Galloway, Oviedo, 15:44.60; 4. Jacob Lockhart, Lake Mary, 15:57.00; 5. Trent Shackelford, Lake Brantley, 16:00.80; 6. Hayden Goodsell, Lake Howell, 16:36.50; 7. Jeffrey Metz, Oviedo, 16:41.20; 8. Robert Matschner, Winter Springs, 16:47.60; 9. James Sellers, Lyman, 16:50.90; 10. Dylan Engle, Lake Mary, 16:52.20
Team scores: 1. Seabreeze, 35; 2. Matanzas, 52; 3. New Smyrna Beach, 84; 4. Pine Ridge, 121; 5. Mainland, 130; 6. Edgewater, 137; 7. East River, 166; 8. Deltona, 244
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Individuals: 1. Aidan O’Gorman, New Smyrna Beach, 15:44.30; 2. Griffin Cooney, New Smyrna Beach, 16:31.50; 3. Ethan Lemoncello, Seabreeze, 16:36.80; 4. Shane Brownrigg, Seabreeze, 16:47.70; 5. Tyler Gilbert, Mainland, 16:54.40; 6. David Wilcox, Matanzas, 17:11.90; 7. Dalton Hawley, Matanzas, 17:36.40; 8. Seth Augustynowski, Seabreeze, 17:36.70; 9. Christian Rodriguez, Seabreeze, 17:41.30; 10. David Telfer, Matanzas, Matanzas, 17:42.90
Team scores: 1. Winter Springs, 56; 2. Lake Brantley, 66; 3. Oviedo, 92; 4. Lake Mary, 92; 5. Spruce Creek, 104; 6. Hagerty, 142; 7. Lyman, 167; 8. Lake Howell, 225; 9. DeLand, 264; 10. Seminole, 288; 11. Orange City University, 307
Individuals: 1. Mya Bodrato, Lake Mary, 17:55.50; 2. Elayna Bahr, Winter Springs, 17:58.60; 3. Chloe Hyde, Lake Brantley, 18:08.90; 4. Mackenzie Czurak, Winter Springs, 18:20.70; 5. Caroline Wells, Winter Springs, 18:31.80; 6. Ashley Klingenburg, Lake Brantley, 18:32.60; 7. Jordan Stevens, Lake Brantley, 18:43.60; 8. Samantha Gayton, Spruce Creek, 18:56.20; 9. Jeanne Davis, Oviedo, 19:11.40; 10. Eva Erikson, Lake Mary, 19:36.90
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Team scores: 1. Matanzas, 50; 2. New Smyrna Beach, 64; 3. Seabreeze, 68; 4. Mainland, 79; 5. Edgewater, 100
Individuals: 1. Emma Schlageter, New Smyrna Beach, 19:51.20; 2. Jennifer Salinas, Edgewater, 19:53.60; 3. Madelyn Bronson, Mainland, 20:06.10; 4. Riley Carter, New Smyrna Beach, 20:08.30; 5. Kelly Steffens, Matanzas, 20:12.70; 6. Kortnee Powers, Pine Ridge, 20:59.90; 7. Genevieve Mundy, Matanzas, 21:04.10; 8. Kimberly Collins, Seabreeze, 21:19.40; 9. Sagan Simmons, Edgewater, 21:24.90; 10. Caitlyn Norfolk, Matanzas, 21:25.70
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The fragrance of “Fifty Shades Of Grey”
April 9, 2015 March 20, 2015 by Huib Maat
To celebrate one of the hottest film launches of the year, the PAIRFUM team would like to offer their view on the which fragrance ingredient has “Fifty Shades of Grey”.
In our opinion, there is only one candidate: Ambergris !
‘Ambergris’ (French) or ‘grey amber’ (Physeter Macrocephallus) is a solid and waxy material of a dull grey colour produced in the digestive system of sperm whales and then excreted. Sperm whales produce it to protect their stomachs from the beaks of the cuttlefish they swallow. Ambergris is not to be confused with ‘Fossilised Amber’, which comes from plant resin.
Ambergris is one of the most valuable raw materials in perfumery. Historically, it was found at sea and collected on beaches. Fresh ambergris is black, matured ambergis is white. Inbetween are at least “Fifty Shades of Grey”. The longer it is in contact with seawater and exposed to sunlight, the more it ages and oxidises, the more it acquires a sweet, rich and sensuous quality to becomes a strong and very valuable perfume ingredient or scent with woody, earthy/mossy, animalic, marine (algae) and powdery notes. In perfumery, ambergris is used as a fixative and to impart ‘depth’ and ‘richness’ to a fragrance accord. Nowadays it is mostly replaced by a synthetic version.
In some cultures it is regarded as an aphrodisiac and offered for sale by herbalists in the fascinating souks of Marrakesh (Morocco) and Cairo (Egypt), where is frequently stirred into cups of sweetened tea.
Historically, Ambergris has been a sought-after product and has been traded in Africa since 1000 B.C. It was seen as one of North Africa’s luxury goods (along with gold). One of the biggest pieces of ambergris ever found was auctioned in London in 1913 and weighed more than 336 pounds.
Blush Rose & Amber
Here at PAIRFUM, we are proud to present our perfume ‘blush rose & amber’ which contains ambergris. The perfect fragrance for #fiftyshadesofgrey.
‘Blush Rose & Amber’ is available in the following luxury scented candles and natural reed diffusers:
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'Full Frontal' Covers Comey's Firing, And, No, It's Still Doesn't Make Sense
By Emily Chambers | Late Night TV | May 11, 2017 |
You’ll have to indulge me with one more day of talking about the Comey firing. Because here’s the thing: I don’t get it. I mean, I understand that it happened, and I understand why it happened. But I don’t understand how. How did:
— Trump think that people would actually be happy about Comey’s firing?
— No one on Trump’s team see this exact reaction coming?
— Spicer legit hide in the bushes to avoid reporters?
— The White House not have a better plan for Comey’s firing given that he literally found out he was fired when a news report played on a TV behind him, and he was then unsure if he’d be able to use the FBI plane he’d taken to L.A. to get home?
— Trump think that anyone would believe he fired Comey for his handling of Clinton’s emails when we have video from less than a year ago of Trump talking about how great it is? (This part is legitimately concerning for me. If Trump didn’t care if we bought his lies, I’d be disgusted, but at least there’s a weird kind of integrity to it. He’s lying, he knows we know he’s lying, he just doesn’t give a shit. But he seems genuinely surprised that people don’t buy this bullshit-turd he’s trying to serve us. That’s the sign of a man so out of touch with any form of reality that I truly question his mental capacity and ability to run a 5k let alone the most powerful nation on Earth. I feel like the entire country is Julia Roberts banging on that restaurant window, and Trump is Dennis Quaid in full disbelieving smugness. HOW DOES HE NOT KNOW THAT WE CAN SEE HIM?)
— Richard Fucking Nixon’s library look at the shit Trump’s pulled, and thought, “Well, we can’t let that ruin our brand”?
— Henry Kissinger escape Satan’s claws for yet another year? Fuck that guy.
— A team of such wildly-incompetent, sociopaths manage to trick 60 million Americans into thinking that the failed son of a wealthy businessman has the answers as to how to stimulate the economy and job - Oh, right. Well, whoever did that should definitely be fired, right?
Emily Chambers is a Staff Contributor for Pajiba. You can follow her retweeting other people on Twitter.
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Travelers, celebs express shock over Notre Dame fire, share memories of their visits
If you've ever been to Paris, chances are you have been to Notre Dame, the massive cathedral and tourist destination and have a memory there.
Travelers, celebs express shock over Notre Dame fire, share memories of their visits If you've ever been to Paris, chances are you have been to Notre Dame, the massive cathedral and tourist destination and have a memory there. Check out this story on pal-item.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2019/04/15/notre-dame-fire-travelers-shock-horror-share-memories/3475095002/
Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY Published 2:37 p.m. ET April 15, 2019 | Updated 8:30 a.m. ET April 16, 2019
If you've ever been to Paris, chances are you have been to Notre Dame, the massive cathedral and tourist destination in the French capital. And that's why the shock and sadness over Monday's fire reverberated well beyond the banks of the Seine and Paris.
French President Emmanuel Macron summed it up well when he said, "I am sad tonight to see this part of all of us burn."
After seeing images of France's most famous church in flames, many travelers –celebrities included – expressed sadness and shared memories of their visit on social media:
Salma Hayek wrote on Instagram that she's in "deep shock and sadness to witness the beauty of Notre-Dame turn into smoke," adding "I love you Paris."
A post shared by Salma Hayek Pinault (@salmahayek) on Apr 15, 2019 at 2:50pm PDT
"Game of Thrones" star Maisie Williams pressed pause on celebrating her 22nd birthday Monday to express her sadness over the blaze: "Interrupting my birthday to express how much pain I’m in watching the Notre Dame fire unfold. Such an incredible building. I’m so sad."
Interrupting my birthday to express how much pain I’m in watching the Notre Dame fire unfold. Such an incredible building. I’m so sad
— Maisie Williams (@Maisie_Williams) April 15, 2019
More: Many of Notre Dame Cathedral's irreplaceable artworks may be gone; some moved just in time
William Shatner said his "heart goes out to the French people." "Very sad to see the Cathedral of Notre Dame in flames. Such a magnificent and iconic structure. I hope everyone is safe," he tweeted.
Very sad to see the Cathedral of Notre Dame in flames. Such a magnificent and iconic structure. I hope everyone is safe and my heart goes out to the French people.
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) April 15, 2019
Idris Elba expressed shock, tweeting, "I cannot believe what’s happening to Notre Dame."
I cannot believe what’s happening to Notre Dame.
— Idris Elba (@idriselba) April 15, 2019
Lin-Manuel Miranda said he's "heartsick for Notre Dame."
Standing here next to you, heartsick for Notre Dame...
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) April 15, 2019
Laura Dern said the shocking news left her weeping. "Our gift of light. Notre Dame on fire. My heart is breaking. My grandmother’s and mother’s heart home," she tweeted.
I’m weeping. Our gift of light. Notre Dame on fire. My heart is breaking. My grandmother’s and mother’s heart home.
— Laura Dern (@LauraDern) April 15, 2019
Camila Cabello recalled her first time in Paris, remembering "being in awe of the (Notre Dame's) beauty." She added that her "heart is breaking seeing the fire."
my heart is breaking seeing the fire at notre dame. I’ll never forget walking in the first time in Paris and being in awe of the beauty of it. 💔
— camila (@Camila_Cabello) April 15, 2019
"Heartbreaking. Imagine the faith of the people who built this great stone wonder," said travel writer Rick Steves. "They broke ground in 1163 with the hope that someday their great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren might attend the dedication Mass – 200 years later."
"So much history collapsing right before our eyes. Heartbroken for Notre-Dame and Paris," wrote singer Dua Lipa.
So much history collapsing right before our eyes. Heartbroken for Notre-Dame and Paris 🖤 https://t.co/wYG6woCtdp
— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) April 15, 2019
"The last and only time I’ve been to Notre Dame was December 2017," @BobbyGaffey captioned a photo of one of the stained-glass installations known as the rose windows. "Even in the dim afternoon light of a Parisian winter, I knew the place and its glass was an artistic, architectural, historical and spiritual treasure. If you’re the praying sort, pray for this glass."
The last and only time I’ve been to Notre Dame was December 2017. Even in the dim afternoon light of a Parisian winter, I knew the place and its glass was an artistic, architectural, historical and spiritual treasure. If you’re the praying sort, pray for this glass. pic.twitter.com/xok8qfvbpf
— Bob (@BobbyGaffey) April 15, 2019
"Just spent a week in Paris and took a tour of the top of Notre Dame," @DP_Brauchle wrote, sharing a photo scaffolding and renovation taken on April 6.
Just spent a week in Paris and took a tour of the top of Notre Dame. Here's a pic from April 6 of the scaffolding and renovation from the tour. #NotreDamepic.twitter.com/NDImHCrrPz
— Robert Brauchle (@DP_Brauchle) April 15, 2019
Terrible fire': Famed Notre Dame cathedral ablaze in Paris
"Such a terrible thing to happen during Holy Week," lamented @Ticky983.
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris caught on fire today. Such a terrible thing to happen during Holy Week. pic.twitter.com/hzlvOW4lOV
— Diane Gillen (@Ticky983) April 15, 2019
"To say I’m devastated is an understatement," wrote Instagram user brittany__charles. "Notre-Dame is what made me fall in love with the beautiful city of Paris. Please go travel the world and see these beautiful works of art before it is too late."
To say I’m devastated is an understatement. Notre-Dame is what made me fall in love with the beautiful city of Paris. Please go travel the world and see these beautiful works of art before it is too late. ❤️ #notredame
A post shared by brittanyyy (@brittany__charles) on Apr 15, 2019 at 11:20am PDT
"I'm praying they save the #NotreDame tonight. Such a glorious building," geminatrix wrote on Instagram, captioning a sunset photo of the cathedral taken last year. "I remember very clearly after some afternoon rain I was walking along the banks of the Siene when the clouds broke apart to this glorious orange sunset. I ran as fast as I could with my little Sony A600, no tripod or filter. Just the camera and the magnificent Cathedral."
I'm praying they save the #NotreDame tonight. Such a glorious building. I took this last year but hadn't posted it. I remember very clearly after some afternoon rain I was walking along the banks of the Siene when the clouds broke apart to this glorious orange sunset. I ran as fast as I could with my little Sony A600, no tripod or filter. Just the camera and the magnificent Cathedral. I really want to go back when I've got my proper kit with me to shoot it again. Let's hope it doesn't get too damaged by this fire!!! 😱😥😱
A post shared by Heather Cole (@geminatrix) on Apr 15, 2019 at 11:02am PDT
"This is absolutely horrible," wrote @a_towers. "One of the most amazing memories of my life was singing in the Notre Dame Cathedral with my Honors choir when we visited for a Paris/London tour in high school. We got to see the whole place and it was just beautiful."
This is absolutely horrible. One of the most amazing memories of my life was singing in the Notre Dame Cathedral with my Honors choir when we visited for a Paris/London tour in high school. We got to see the whole place and it was just beautiful. https://t.co/VcVton5yt5
— Andrea Towers (@_atowers) April 15, 2019
"850 years and survived two world wars. What a huge history and heritage lost to fire," @louis_endr lamented on Twitter.
Breaking: Notre Dame Cathedral Paris burns in flame.
Age: 850 years and survived two world wars.
What a huge history and heritage lost to fire.
There’s need to get to the root of the cause. Thorough investigation must be carried out pic.twitter.com/cY3778yoJm
— YourFavoriteNurse 🇳🇬 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 (@louis_endr) April 15, 2019
"Construction on Notre Dame started in the 12th century - it isn’t just a building - it’s history, it’s beautiful architecture and a place of worship," @darlinmatty wrote on Twitter. "It’s heartbreaking to hear about the fire within such an old, beautiful cathedral."
Construction on Notre Dame started in the 12th century - it isn’t just a building - it’s history, it’s beautiful architecture and a place of worship. It’s heartbreaking to hear about the fire within such an old, beautiful cathedral. pic.twitter.com/Mc8aeq6C5H
— Shannon | 4.26 🦋 (@darlinmatty) April 15, 2019
"Watching Notre Dame burn makes me feel the way I felt diving on a bleached and dead hunk of the Great Barrier Reef," wrote @BillMcKibben. "Beauty and meaning can be so vulnerable -- not to be taken for granted, ever"
Watching Notre Dame burn makes me feel the way I felt diving on a bleached and dead hunk of the Great Barrier Reef. Beauty and meaning can be so vulnerable--not to be taken for granted, ever
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) April 15, 2019
@JerrellZod said he hoped the organizations charged with maintaining historic sites like Notre Dame take notice and take action after what happened in Paris.
"A structure that is over 800 years old burning. A city like Paris doesn't have firefighting Choppers?" he wrote. "I hope countries with 'World historic sites' have (a) plan. Because this can happen anywhere."
As an American looking at a world historic site. A structure that is over 800 years old burning. A city like Paris doesn't have firefighting Choppers? I hope countries with "World historic sites" have plan. Because this can happen anywhere. Notre Dame was undergoing renovations. pic.twitter.com/vlqSh23FIc
— M'Baku the ruler. (@JerrellZod) April 15, 2019
The cause was unknown, but officials said it could be linked to the $6.8 million renovation work being done around the attic located at the rear of the nearly-1,000-year-old building.
The damage includes the collapse of the roof loss of the spire, which had been located on the roof over the altar.
@ppdurastanti remained hopeful, citing past restorations following World War II.
"... Many churches were damaged or razed all over Europe during WW2. They were repaired, rebuilt. This will be no exception. We will rebuild."
PHOTOS: The stunning Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
Famed Notre Dame Cathedral on fire in Paris
Bystanders watch as flames and smoke billow from the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. ERIC FEFERBERG, AFP/Getty Images
Smoke rises in front of the altar cross at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019, after a fire engulfed the building. PHILIPPE WOJAZER, AFP/Getty Images
A view of the interior from the entrance of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019, after a fire engulfed the building. PHILIPPE WOJAZER, AFP/Getty Images
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron pay a visit to firemen fighting a fire in the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. YOAN VALAT, EPA-EFE
Firefighters douse flames billowing from the roof at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. LUDOVIC MARIN, AFP/Getty Images
Bystanders watch as flames and smoke billow from the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. BRIAN HESTER, NorthJersey.com via USA TODAY Network
French firefighters spray water to put out a fire on the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. JULIEN DE ROSA, EPA-EFE
Flames and smoke are seen in the interior of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, on April 15, 2019. Philippe Wojazer, Pool Photo
Flames burn the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. IAN LANGSDON, EPA-EFE
People kneel on the pavement as they pray outside while watching flames engulf Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. ERIC FEFERBERG, AFP/Getty Images
Flames burn the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. PHILIPPE LOPEZ, AFP/Getty Images
Fire fighters work at the burning Notre Dame cathedral, April 15, 2019. Benoit Moser, BSPP via AP
The landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral is engulfed by flames in central Paris on April 15, 2019. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT, AFP/Getty Images
Flames and smoke billow from the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. FOUAD MAGHRANE, AFP/Getty Images
People react as they watch flames engulf the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT, AFP/Getty Images
Flames burn the roof of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. IAN LANGSDON, EPA-EFE
Flames and smoke are seen billowing from the roof at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. PATRICK ANIDJAR, AFP/Getty Images
Smoke ascends as flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral. FRANCOIS GUILLOT, AFP/Getty Images
Fire fighters work at the burning Notre Dame cathedral. Benoit Moser, BSPP via AP
Flames and smoke are seen billowing from the roof at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. LUDOVIC MARIN, AFP/Getty Images
A man watches the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral burn, engulfed in flames. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT, AFP/Getty Images
Bystanders look on as flames and smoke billow from Notre Dame Cathedral. LUDOVIC MARIN, AFP/Getty Images
Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral. FRANCOIS GUILLOT, AFP/Getty Images
Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral. FRANCOIS GUILLOT, AFP/Getty Images
Bystanders look on as flames and smoke billow from Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday, April 15, 2019. EDOUARD MAGRINO, AFP/Getty Images
The steeple of the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral collapses as the cathedral is engulfed in flames in central Paris on April 15, 2019. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT, AFP/Getty Images
The spire collapses while flames are burning the roof of the Notre-Dame Cathedral. IAN LANGSDON, EPA-EFE
People watch as the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral burns. PHILIPPE LOPEZ, AFP/Getty Images
Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019. Francois Guillot / AFP / Getty Images
Flames on the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. IAN LANGSDON, EPA-EFE
Notre Dame Cathedral is burning in Paris on Monday, April 15, 2019. Massive plumes of yellow brown smoke is filling the air above Notre Dame Cathedral and ash is falling on tourists and others around the island that marks the center of Paris. AP
Notre Dame cathedral is burning in Paris, April 15, 2019. Massive plumes of yellow brown smoke is filling the air above Notre Dame Cathedral and ash is falling on tourists and others around the island that marks the center of Paris. Lori Hinant, AP
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The Music Shop
By Rachel Joyce
Art, Music & Photography / Contemporary Fiction
A story about the triumph of a quiet hero. And how music can bring us back to life. The exquisite and perfectly-pitched new novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.
From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry:
' A beautiful novel, a tonic for the soul and a complete joy to read.' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep.
1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk – as long as it’s vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need.
Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann.
Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with her pea-green coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to re-open and a past he will never leave behind ...
'Hits all the right notes...a love story that’s as much about the silences between words as what is said – the spaces between people that can be filled with mystery, confusion and misunderstanding as well as hope." Observer
A BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK AT BEDTIME'.
“ Rachel Joyce tells wonderful stories. In her hands, ordinary lives are given dignity and triumph. She is a champion of humanity, and The Music Shop is no exception. It is a joyous love song that pulses with hope and benevolence and laughter. ”
Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit and Tin Man
“ Her speciality is writing with empathy on the quirkier aspects of life...[The Music Shop] has the feel of a summer hit: warm-hearted, unusual and romantic, with a sense of hope pervading all manner of misfortunes... Joyce's gift is in using simple language to convey profound observations on human nature. ”
Will Hodgkinson, The Times
“ The Music Shop is wonderful - a tender and moving love story which captures brilliantly the healing, redemptive power of music and its ability to console, empower and reassure. I adored it. ”
Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us
“ Rachel Joyce hits all the right notes with her love letter to vinyl… This is the most beautiful ode to music, community and love, that overflows with charm and warmth. ”
Jane Craddock, The Sun
“ [Joyce] writes with unquestionable charm and and with her considerable heart never far from her sleeve. Joyce's charm and good-heartedness remain undiminished, as does her ability to create a highly appealing, semi-magical world... and to make us root for her characters all the way. ”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph
“ Rachel Joyce deploys all her trademark charm… on a journey of redemption, of confronting the demons from the past and of healing. ”
“ A beautiful novel, a tonic for the soul and a complete joy to read. ”
Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
“ I love any novel by Rachel Joyce, whose The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was a huge success. Now she has created another Pied Piper of the heart in Frank, the proprietor of the music shop. Frank's individually chosen records can heal the soul - and this bewitching love story sings out the unique beauty of every human being, leaving you uplifted. ”
Bel Mooney
“ Nobody writes with quite that mixture of clear eyed humanity and downright authorial mischief that Rachel Joyce brings to The Music Shop ”
Patrick Gale, twitter
“ The Music Shop tells us that our drum beats may well be different, but we can still dance to a harmonious and funky rhythm. Rachel Joyce is a genius with words and full of soul. This is another uplifting and utterly heart-enlarging novel. ”
“ Frank in The Music Shop has taken my love of vinyl to a much higher level. He introduced me to music I've never heard before and has given me a new way of listening to all music. Rachel paints her odd ball bunch of characters with a delicate deftness of touch. You cannot help but love them all. ”
Johnnie Walker, MBE
“ BEST SUMMER READS: I loved this moving story about the healing power of music. ”
Woman&Home
“ A tender, funny compelling and hugely resonant story ”
“ Such a touching and gently didactic story - melts your heart. ”
Veronica Henry, twitter
“ A happy book ”
Jane Garvey, BBC Radio4 Woman's Hour
“ What joy. A big-hearted, beguiling story full of charm, gentleness and humour and peopled with glorious characters. A love song to beauty on the margins, friendship, and the intrinsic power of music. ”
Keggie Carew, author of DADLAND
“ I especially adored the music bits; fascinating snippets about everyone from Liszt to Led Zep. ”
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
“ An uplifting read, full of humour and authentic characters. ”
“ This nostalgia hit will lift your spirits. ”
Closer Magazine
“ Rachel Joyce has established a reputation for novels that celebrate the dignity and courage of ordinary people and the resilience of the human spirit. ”
“ I loved Rachel Joyce's The Music Shop. ”
Lenny Henry, Radio Times
“ A tender novel about heartache and redemption, full of humour and perceptive observations, ”
“ Delicately observed... this one both charms and stings... A romance about a lonely muso [and] a love letter to the power of vinyl. ”
“ Book of the day ”
“ A sensitive, sweetly melancholic story of music, connection and community ”
“ BOOK OF THE WEEK: An uplifting read…full of humour and authentic characters ”
Midweek Extra
“ Breezily written, heart-warming and unashamedly sentimental… [a] modern fairy tale ”
Mail on Sunday
“ Rachel Joyce returns to some of the themes in her bestselling debut The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: loss, the past and the bonds that can be forged with strangers. This time the pilgrimage is through music. ”
“ A quirky, romantic fairy tale perfect for summer. ”
You Magazine
“ The Music Shop is a one gulp, super-satisfying read. Love it, love it, love it. ”
Sir Lenny Henry
“ My Christmas pick: I love any novel by Rachel Joyce, whose The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was a huge success. Now she has created another Pied Piper of the heart in Frank, the proprietor of The Music Shop...This bewitching love story sings out the unique beauty of every human being, leaving you uplifted. ”
Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
“ Joyce, a British actress and playwright, whose first novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, was longlisted for the Man Booker, continues to enchant and break hearts with her lovable misfits trying to survive in a modern world determined to pass them by. Irresistible. ”
Beth Anderson, Library Journal
“ An unforgettable story of music, loss and hope. Fans of High Fidelity, meet your next quirky love story. Vinyl fans, hold onto your turntables - Joyce's latest is a buoyant homage to the healing power of music well-played. ”
“ ‘The Music Shop’ is an unabashedly sentimental tribute to the healing power of great songs, and Joyce is hip to greatness in any key…. [The novel] captures the sheer, transformative joy of romance — ‘a ballooning of happiness.’ Joyce’s understated humor…offers something like the pleasure of A.A. Milne for adults. She has a kind of sweetness that’s never saccharine, a kind of simplicity that’s never simplistic…. I wouldn’t change a single note. Rachel Joyce, if music be the food of love, write on! ”
“ Rachel Joyce’s charming and deceptively simple fourth novel chronicles an offbeat love story between a mystery woman and an ardent, if lonely, collector and gently explores the power of memory and music and the certainty of change…. love, friendship, and especially the healing powers of music all rise together into a triumphant crescendo…. This lovely novel is as satisfying and enlightening as the music that suffuses its every page. ”
“ Magnificent…. Joyce’s novel is intellectually and emotionally satisfying on every possible level. If you love words, if you love music, if you love, this is 2018’s first must-read, and it will be without question one of the year’s best. ”
Top Pick in Fiction, January 2018, BookPage
“ Joyce has a knack for quickly sketching characters in a way that makes them stick…. This is a touching, sometimes funny book about surviving change, the power of music and the importance of having a community — wacky or not. As with all of Joyce’s books, it will surprise you. ”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
“ Joyce…continues to enchant and break hearts with her lovable misfits trying to survive in a modern world determined to pass them by. Irresistible. ”
“ Magical…. [Rachel] Joyce has a winner in this deceptively simple love story…. Joyce’s odes to music…and the notion that the perfect song can transform one’s life make this novel a triumph. ”
“ Whether on foot, as in her novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, or track by track, on this unlikely musical odyssey, Joyce excels in enveloping readers in epic journeys of lost connections and loving reunions. ”
“ [Rachel] Joyce sets up a charming cast of characters, and her spirals into the sonic landscapes of brilliant musicians are delightful, casting a vivid backdrop for the quietly desperate romance between Frank and Ilse. From nocturnes to punk, this musical romance is ripe for filming. ”
Also by Rachel Joyce
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Schmidt: Google-Apple relationship warms a little
posted by Alan F. / Jul 11, 2013, 10:29 PM
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, says that the often frosty relationship between his company and rival Apple is slowly defrosting. Over the last year, the two tech titans have been involved in "lots and lots" of meetings. The executive made his comment during the annual Allen and Co media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on Thursday. According to Schmidt, Google and Apple are involved in "constant business discussions on a long list of issues."
The Google executive once sat on Apple's board during the development of the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad. That seems like eons ago, before Google's Android OS became the global leader powering smartphones. Apple didn't help the relationship when it decided to drop Google Maps and YouTube on iOS 6. Apple Maps, which was going to replace Google Maps on the platform, suffered through a poor launch and Google Maps ended up updating its new app in the Apple App Store. YouTube was removed because Google wanted to be able to put mobile ads up on the app. Apple actually did Google a huge favor. With Apple removing the YouTube client from iOS 6, it allowed Google to sell mobile ads on a new version of the YouTube app made available in the Apple App Store.
Will this be the start of a new era of peace in the mobile industry, or is it the calm before the storm? Who can forget the comment made by the late Steve Jobs to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
1. Jklaz
Posts: 159; Member since: Jul 01, 2013
Lol Apple
posted on Jul 11, 2013, 11:00 PM 10
2. abcdefgh
Posts: 471; Member since: Mar 29, 2013
could not help but lol at apple
3. ScottSchneider
Posts: 336; Member since: Dec 06, 2011
Apple took a big nail and hit it straight down their own head by dropping G Maps...
4. mas11
Posts: 1034; Member since: Mar 30, 2012
I really hope this, "Thermonuclear War on Android" ends soon, because it was such a stupid thing to begin with. Competition is a good thing, Android took some inspiration from iOS in the beginning and iOS is taking inspiration from Android. Making both OS's better.
5. dashing123
Posts: 17; Member since: Jul 04, 2012
Your last sentence, That was lovely.
7. MartianMe unregistered
You two wanna be left alone to do your thing??? ;)
6. itsdeepak4u2000
Posts: 3718; Member since: Nov 03, 2012
8. _Bone_
Posts: 2155; Member since: Oct 29, 2012
Their relationship got cold over the Samsung suit, but frankly, those patent claims look ridiculous in 2013, especially after iOS7 borrowed so many ideas itself. So in the end, both realize there's no reason to go war over these things, Apple is still dominantly a HW selling company and Google as an ad revenue corporation isn't their #1 rival, so it's better to be on the same Page.
9. Stuntman
All Apple had to do to win me over in this war was make a phone that I like more than my Android phone. So far, that hasn't happened.
10. roscuthiii
Posts: 2383; Member since: Jul 18, 2010
This is one of the reasons I liked hearing Tim Cook was going to be Steve Jobs's successor... As a supply guy I'd think he'd be a little more practical & logical in his approach. Detractors would blame him for Apple's continued litigations, but I'm sure that's been more or less spurred on by the remnants of the Jobs faithful remaining within the company; board of directors and executives, etc.
11. jellmoo
Honestly, it's more than possible to be competitors and still be civil and even work together when it makes sense. A more amicable relationship between Apple and Google is great for the consumer, as they can focus more time and resources on better products, rather than mud flinging.
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The 1975's New Drummer Is From A Seriously Awesome Band
19 May 2016, 14:48 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 17:09
Which early 00s alt legend is taking over George's seat for the tour?
As you've probably heard by now, The 1975 are currently down a drummer as George Daniel has broken his shoulder in the middle of a US tour.
Here he is in happier times drumming away like a maniac.
TOOSHYSHY.TUMBLR.COM
But fear not The 1975 fans: George is recovering, no tour dates have been cancelled and now Matty has revealed who the replacement drummer will be for the remainder of the shows.
Drummer 'Dave Elitch' of The Mars Volta will be joining The 1975 for next 6 - 8 weeks in absence of George Daniel
— matty (@Truman_Black) May 18, 2016
Oh yes, get excited!
@fredmacpherson ennit!
Dave Elitch is this guy.
Dave Elitch
He's worked with everyone from M83 to Miley Cyrus and even MR JT himself, Justin Timberlake. But his most high profile gig was with The Mars Volta.
In case you've forgotten, The Mars Volta were the incredible, psychadelic jam band that spun out of At The Drive In..., hitting the big time in the early 00s with alt hits like "The Widow".
They became a hit on the festival circuit, supported the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers and were still releasing albums as recently as 2012.
Dave officially joined them in 2009 - no small feat as the drum parts on those records are insane and he managed to step in mid-tour and pick everything up quickly - just as he's about to do with Matty and the boys.
And just in case you need more convincing, here he is in action:
In short, relax everybody - George's kit is in very good hands.
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Political Science - Governance
Political Science - World/European
Political Science - Political Process/Elections
Party Mandates and Democracy
Making, Breaking, and Keeping Election Pledges in Twelve Countries
Elin Naurin, Terry J. Royed, and Robert Thomson, Editors
Contrary to public opinion, election promises are often fulfilled
New Comparative Politics
When people discuss politics, they often mention the promises politicians make during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. Party Mandates and Democracy reveals the extent to and conditions under which governments fulfill party promises during election campaigns. Contrary to conventional wisdom a majority of pledges—sometimes a large majority—are acted upon in most countries, most of the time.
The fulfillment of parties’ election pledges is an essential part of the democratic process. This book is the first major, genuinely comparative study of promises across a broad range of countries and elections, including the United States, Canada, nine Western European countries, and Bulgaria. The book thus adds to the body of literature on the variety of outcomes stemming from alternative democratic institutions.
“This is an important endeavor and contributes to our understanding of an important aspect of parties as organizations—the production and fulfillment of policy pledges. Combining both cross-national and case study analyses offers the reader both a more general understanding of these topics as well as a more specific understanding of the nuances of the individual cases.”
—Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh
“This book presents the first comparative analysis of the fulfillment of election pledges across 12 countries in Europe and North America. It is the result of an ambitious and rigorous data collection effort and presents much needed data on the fulfillment of promises made by politicians during election campaigns. This book will be without doubt the key reference and major data source for the study of pledge fulfillment in the future and deserves a place in any political science library.”
—Heike Klüver, Humboldt University of Berlin
“This very important book makes major contributions to a topic at the very heart of contemporary democracy: whether and under what circumstances parties keep their campaign promises. Original and rigorous analyses of the outcomes of 20,000 pledges, as well as explications in 12 countries, take us a huge step forward.”
—G. Bingham Powell, Jr. University of Rochester
Elin Naurin is Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg.
Terry J. Royed is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama.
Robert Thomson is Professor of Political Science at Monash University, Melbourne.
Political Survival of Small Parties in Europe
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context
The Latin American Voter
11 charts, 28 tables.
Election promises; Electoral pledges; campaigns; Representative; democracy; Political parties; Program-to-policy-linkage; Mandates; Policy-making; Government capacity; Comparative Party Pledges Project; Do parties fulfill their election pledges; United Kindom; UK; United States; US; Canada; Spain; Portugal; Sweden; Ireland; Italy; Germany; Austria; Netherlands; Bulgaria
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Jim Tankersley
Tax and economics reporter
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@bencasselman @RichardRubinDC @AtlantaFed well @deborah_solomon is cutting down my story right now, as we slack, so… t.co/Xr1xDLjkb7
Jim Tankersley is a tax and economics reporter with The New York Times based in the Washington bureau. Previously he was with Vox where he edited the policy and politics team, including coverage of the economy, health care, immigration, Congress and the White House. Before that he spent four years at The Washington Post as the paper’s economic policy correspondent, and three years in a similar role at National Journal.
Jim has written extensively about the stagnation of the American middle class, the decline of economic opportunity in wide swaths of the country and how policy changes in Washington have exacerbated those trends over the past few decades.
Jim came to Washington 10 years ago to join the D.C. bureau of the Chicago Tribune, where he covered Congress and the 2008 presidential campaign. He started his career with stints at The Oregonian, The Rocky Mountain News, and The Toledo Blade, primarily covering politics. At The Blade he was a member of the Coingate team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He and a Blade colleague won the 2007 Livingston Award for Young Journalists for a series of stories demonstrating how and why the Ohio economy declined so dramatically over the course of a generation.
Tankersley is an Oregon native and a graduate of Stanford University.
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Trump tries to reset with economic speech — but faces new resistance in GOP
Seeking to put the most difficult stretch of his campaign behind him, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used a major economic speech Monday to reach out to two voting blocs that remain critical to his faltering chances of winning in Novemb
How Hillary Clinton created her plan for America — behind-the-scenes
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How Brexit could turn every country into a loser
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Hillary Clinton: ‘Anger’ and ‘anxiety’ are driving people to Trump
In exclusive interview, Clinton makes new pitch to workers who now support Trump
A very bad sign for all but America’s biggest cities
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Kasich won’t return Rubio’s favor in Florida
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How pot and hippie beer explain the future of the American economy
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This new poll gets to the bottom of why Republicans seem so angry in this election
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The decline of the middle class, in video-game format
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Plant Based Brand Oatly Addresses Controversy Over Selling Oat Residue To Pig Farm
The company has faced questions on social media this week
Feb 6, 2018 7:22 PM
The company says it has listened to feedback (Photo: Oatly)
Swedish plant-based brand Oatly has faced questions this week over how it disposes of oat residue after making its products.
According to the company, it sells the residue from its factory to a local pig farm - a move, it says, that is the most sustainable and environmentally-friendly.
This revelation caused mixed reactions among vegans.
Activist, Kate Louise Powell, said: "You're literally giving your plant residue to animals so that people can then eat them?
"So disappointed in you."
Another Twitter user added: "Very disappointed. [The factory in] Landskrona isn't far from Malmo and Copenhagen.
"Surely there is a nearby animal sanctuary that could use the spent oats. Until then no Oatly for me."
While some people pledged to ditch the product in light of the information, others said they would still consume it.
Following the social media discussion, Oatly has responded with a statement, which says: "The issues and comments you have shared with us are both extremely valid and highly complex.
"They have provided us with hours and hours of internal reflection and they deserve honest and thorough answers.
"Our ambition to be both the most transparent and sustainable company in the food industry doesn’t mean that we are by any means perfect.
"Our approach to sustainability is driven by scientific facts."
The topic was debated online (Photo: Twitter)
According to company, bosses have looked at 'every means possible' in a bid to improve sustainability.
The statement says: "Yes, sending our production residuals to a local farm as feed has eliminated the unnecessary waste of nutrients and at the same time contributed to the production of biogas.
"And with the help of biogas our production plant has become totally carbon neutral.
"This accomplishment does not, however, free us from the need to constantly probe deeper in order to reach our other core objective – to promote plant-based nutrition over animal based nutrition in every way possible."
Adding that consumers' voices are an 'important part of creating change', the company pledged to re-visit the issue and look at alternative solutions.
It said: "Rather than serve you a wall of corporate babble, we ask that you allow us time to work through our thinking and provide you with a plan on how we plan to move forward sometime in the coming weeks.
"We trust that you will be here with your personal angle on things to scrutinise every word of our plan."
Early reactions to the statement so far seem mixed.
One social media wrote: "So, you're still not a vegan company, then?"
Another said most buying products from most companies supports animal agriculture directly or indirectly.
They added: "I like this brand, and how it has worked to be sustainable. I'm interested to see whether the feedback means they will stop selling to the pig farm.
"In the mean time, I still feel that it offers an ethical option - after all, many plant milk brands are owned by dairy companies, or bigger companies that make money from animal exploitation."
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Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 Delayed Again, Still Releasing in April
Jason DunningMonday, March 06, 2017
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 has suffered another delay and is now releasing on April 25 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, CI Games announced today. It was previously scheduled for April 4.
As CI Games explains, the extra three weeks will be used to “complete some final implementations based on feedback” received during the recent PC beta. CEO Marek Tymiński adds:
We’ve worked tirelessly creating a whole new Sniper Ghost Warrior experience set in an ambitiously crafted open world new to the series. While it’s an unfortunate decision to delay the game one last time, we believe these final changes will result in a better experience for players worldwide on day one. Thank you for your patience – we know the wait will be worth it.
By pre-ordering Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 on PS4 or PC, you’ll receive the Season Pass for free. Priced at $29.99 USD on its own, the Season Pass includes access to two major single-player expansions (The Escape of Lydia and The Sabotage), two multiplayer maps, an exclusive all-terrain vehicles, and two exclusive weapons (the McMillan TAC-338A Sniper Rifle and Compound Bow).
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Eric Hollreiser: Kevin Hart Opens Up a Whole New Area for Us
Published On: 2 May 2017 / Modified: 24 June 2019
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Not too long ago, football icons Neymar Jr. and Cristiano Ronaldo were the central characters of PokerStars’ marketing campaigns.
Just under halfway into 2017, Kevin Hart has now taken over the stage.
Something must have changed to make PokerStars move away from sports stars and towards TV stars. Or has it?
Kevin Hart: Poker's Future?
We caught up with Eric Hollreiser, VP of Corporate Communications for Amaya Inc. and PokerStars, at the PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo to find out.
Eric Hollreiser: Our relationship with Neymar and Ronaldo was a very fruitful one and remains a very good partnership.
Not the last time you'll see this guy.
The contracts with both of them were for a limited time. Neymar’s has expired and Ronaldo’s is expiring.
While you won’t likely see them in campaigns going forward, we hope to continue to do work with them in the future.
PL: Why not, right? They’re still superstars.
EH: Our marketing is evolving. Historically, we have used a fair number of athletes to show that poker is a game of skill. I do think that now the close link between poker as a game and athletes is pretty well documented.
In the past we used retired athletes. Rafael Nadal was the first athlete still active we worked with, and then came Neymar and Ronaldo -- him being the person with the largest social media footprint in the world.
We felt that it was now time to look for some new ways to reach new audiences and, as you saw, we have Kevin Hart now.
PL: It feels like the sports stars lasted longer in the past. Boris Becker was on the team for ages, and Fatima is still there.
EH: There’s a difference there. Boris and Fatima are people who play a lot of poker. You can’t expect Ronaldo or Neymar to do that simply because they’re at the heights of their careers and wouldn’t have the time.
There’s been some misreporting about our abandoning athletes and not using them for our marketing anymore, which is simply not true.
The truth is we’ve come to the end of contracts with two major sports stars, which A) doesn’t mean we won’t work together in the future, and B) doesn’t mean we won’t bring on another major athlete in the future.
Very much in line with poker's evolution.
But marketing is evolving, and poker is evolving, too. Kevin Hart is very much in line with how it is evolving.
We’ve been talking about how we need to change the dynamic of poker, particularly online, to create an environment that is attractive to new players, attractive to recreational players, which are by far the vast majority of our players.
Kevin opens up a whole new area for us because his approach to life and to business – his global footprint - is very different from what you find in an athlete.
His aspirations and the sheer joy of poker … he plays a lot of poker and you’ll see him play a lot. He has not just the attitude and the skills, but also the real passion for poker and this will make it a transformative relationship for us.
PL: Did you just turn away from the football pitch and towards Hollywood?
EH: Hollywood is important for us and has been in the past. For example, we did a large charity event in the Caribbean a couple of years ago with the whole cast of a movie.
The connection between Hollywood celebrities and us has been there a long time. Kevin just really wanted to work with us and made that very clear at the Bahamas.
The “Raise It” campaign was a wonderful campaign and reached something around 185 million viewers, but we wanted to delve into other aspects of poker – the mind sport aspect for example, the mindset you need to be good at poker.
Loves his team.
These skill sets are not necessarily physical but can be a lot more about savviness and psychological understanding.
And honestly, the number of ambassadors you can have has to be relative to the ability to actually manage them.
We don’t live in a world anymore where everybody is just walking billboards. That’s not an effective way to market these days.
We still want team pros – we just signed Igor – and I expect to see more signings down the road.
Everyone in our roster of Team Pros brings their own skills and abilities. Fatima, for example, is unique in how many languages she speaks and multi-talented she is. I love the team right now.
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Double Your Film Pleasure in Sarasota this Weekend: Sarasota Film Festival & Sarasota Fringe Film Festival
If the Sarasota Film Festival (SFF) followed proper email etiquette, the inaugural Sarasota Fringe Film Festival (April 2 - 5, 2009) would not be happening. On March 2, rejection emails were sent out to hundreds (350) of filmmakers who submitted their work to be considered for the 11th Annual Sarasota Film Festival (March 27 - April 5, 2009). Everyone's email addresses were exposed because the SFF did not use the BCC (blind carbon copy) option.
Since the rejected filmmakers now had each other's emails, they decided to move forward with their own film festival and soon became known as the Sarasota 350. No prizes will be awarded during this film festival, every reject is a winner! The Rustic Grill (400 North Lemon, Sarasota) will be the screening location and party central for the fringe festival.
All is good between the two festivals, in fact, word is they are collaborating with joint festivities Thursday night. I probably can't make it Thursday, but perhaps you can , here are highlights of what's happening:
5 - 7:30 p.m. Opening Reception featuring music, a live skit and remarks by the festival director.
"Hardley Bear to Look at You" - Is it reality? Is it cinema? The film intertwines the two in this tangled story of communication and relationships.
"Andy Warhol's Factory People" - Looks at a group around the forefather of reality television, Andy Warhol.
"The Mountain, the River, and the Road" - Stranded in a small town after a botched road trip, a young man finds love and himself.
Intrigued? Check out the Sarasota Fringe Film Festival website for an entire list of activities and films including discussion panels.
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Conference marks 40 years of housing success by Helm
The social housing sector in Northern Ireland has transformed housing provision in towns, cities and rural areas across the region since it was first established - that was the message as management and staff from Helm Housing Association along with social housing colleagues and DSD officials at Helm Housingâ??s stakeholder conference.Â
The conference, which got underway at Queenâ??s Universityâ??s Management School this morning, also recognised the organisationâ??s fortieth anniversary and its work across the sector. Â It was first set-up as Belfast Improved Housing, and rebranded as Helm Housing in 2009.Â
Helm Housing, which manages over 5,000 properties, was first established in 1975 and concentrated exclusively on renovating existing properties. Growing from 307 tenancies in 1979, the association now provides accommodation for over 15,000 people across Northern Ireland. Â Helm also engages in innovative partnership delivery with over twenty specialist care providers including Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, De Paul Ireland, Simon Community, Salvation Army and Praxis.Â
The conference heard from a number of speakers including CEO Michael McDonnell and Bernie Rooney, DSD Director of Housing. Speaking during the event, Chair of Helm Housing Liz Cuddy said:Â
â??Helm Housing Associationâ??s forty years in operation is testament to team members past and present and the innovation and commitment to building quality homes in the social housing sector in Northern Ireland. Emerging at a time when housing provision was in almost permanent crisis, the organisation has grown to become one of the regionâ??s leading housing providers. Housing Associations transformed housing provision in towns, cities and rural areas when they first emerged and are ready for the future challenges which face the sector.
â??Through partnership Helmâ??s work today includes some of the most forward thinking of the sector. Our dementia friendly scheme at Hemsworth Court has won local and national recognition. Ensuring we have effective funding can sustain this innovation and allow us to meet the future challenges of housing provision. That means an increased focus on partnership, support care provision and a drive to build communities rather than just homes,â?
Last year Helm Housing built 133 homes and created 14 apprenticeships with suppliers including H&J Martin and Fusion Heating and continues to develop social housing across Northern Ireland.Â
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Railinc Releases 2017 Annual Report
Published Date 3/6/18 1:41 PM
Last year, Railinc continued working to deliver value to customers through innovative technologies that help to address some of the freight rail industry’s most pressing challenges. Leveraging our people, processes and technology, we completed critical industry projects, advanced important initiatives, upgraded systems and developed solutions that addressed rail safety, asset maintenance and utilization, and traffic management.
We’re proud of our purpose-driven work, serving the freight rail industry and creating value for people and business across North America. Our 2017 Railinc annual report—Delivering Innovation—highlights that work and our accomplishments from the past year.
Links to our 2017 annual report and past reports are available on our Annual Report page.
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The Curious Case of Milepost 21
Published Date 11/24/15 5:05 PM
What do you do when a mile isn't actually a mile? Or when two rail mileposts are labeled with the same number but located in different places? These are just some of questions Railinc faces as it works to build a map of the Chicago Gateway, the busiest rail hub in the U.S. In this guest post, Railinc Data Architect David Weinberg considers the curious case of Milepost 21 and how data that seems simple can get complicated in a hurry.
I spent an interesting hour recently with Abby Clark discussing geographic information systems (GIS). These systems are designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and present different types of spatial or geographical data.
Abby is among the leading GIS minds within the freight rail industry. Not only did she lead the Association of American Railroad's GIS committee for years, she helped to found the GIS program at CSX, where she worked until retiring earlier this year. These days, she's consulting for Railinc and leading our efforts to establish our GIS capabilities.
We are fortunate to have Abby. Her experience within the industry and knowledge of the various technologies will help us develop a solid foundation for Railinc's two big GIS technology projects, including one in the Chicago Gateway. The Chicago Gateway hub is the busiest rail hub in the nation and the freight rail equivalent of New York's JFK International Airport. Not only is Chicago superbusy, the inherent variability of multiparty rail transportation and brutal winter weather make for a challenging planning and execution environment.
Railinc's Chicago Gateway work this year is creating an authoritative map of the hub that will include tracks and many other data points such as mileposts, control points and corridors. We expect to put trains on the map by 2016. That eventually will support the display of dynamic train routing options based on changing conditions such as track repairs.
But when Abby and I met, we were working on something really basic. Or so I thought.
It was one simple locational data type and probably the most-used geographic element in the freight rail industry: the lowly, and certainly lonely, milepost.
Railroads use mileposts to define locations within their rail networks. The mileposts fall within broad regions in the networks called subdivisions, which are part of divisions. Railroad GIS departments maintain map layers of all the fixed assets along their track, along with the geo-coordinates.
The milepost number only has meaning in the context of a specific subdivision. For example, a particular milepost might be within the Santa Rosa County subdivision of CSX in northern Florida. There is undoubtedly another milepost with the same number in another subdivision.
Abby and I were reviewing milepost data when I noticed something weird. She had a Chicago map on the screen, and it had multiple mileposts for the same location but from different railroads.
Why would this be?
"Oh, that's an easy one," she said. "Railroads often have mileposts for the tracks they use, even if they don't own the track."
We were looking at a squashed, centerline view of the map, which is basically a logical view that creates one main track and eliminates detail. Then she zoomed out on the map, and my mouth dropped open. The two milepost 21s were in different locations.
Will the Real Milepost 21 Please Stand Up?
How could this be?
There are two possible reasons, Abby said. One is that the two points were surveyed using different methods, one more accurate than the other.
The other?
"One might not be a physical milepost," she said.
Some railroads maintain a layer of virtual mileposts that are always exactly 5,280 feet apart, though most only maintain the old physical mileposts like milepost 21 shown above. While the track network changes over time, physical mileposts rarely move. A measured milepost could end up in a different (and virtual) location from the physical milepost.
So which one will we show to the world in our Chicago interface? Possibly neither.
For various reasons, Railinc might need to create a third milepost, a "reference milepost" that splits the difference between the two and also places it alongside the rail, where it should be. This reference milepost would be for display purposes only, not for track maintenance or any other operational work.
Still, we would need to maintain its traceability to the "real" ones. It is also possible we will show all three of them, but in different contexts.
Looking at the same map, I noticed something really weird about the mileposts on the right side.
A Country Mile
The mileposts aren't the same distance apart. I pointed this out to Abby.
"It's the same issue," she said. "Track changes over time, but they don't move the mileposts. This can lead to some big differences in the distances. But it may not matter. It all depends on how you are using the data."
In other words, it's reasonable to assume that Milepost 5, below, is exactly a mile from Milepost 6. If you did, though, you would be dead wrong.
But if you used the geo-coordinates to calculate a point along the rails halfway between Milepost 5 and Milepost 6, you would be fine. Perhaps a better name for this type of data is not "milepost" but simply "post."
The lesson here is that even the simplest locational data element can get complicated in a hurry. In the case of mileposts, here are a few questions that arose:
How do we handle the differences between physical and virtual mileposts? Do they need to be labeled?
Some railroads have multiple mileposts with the same number and in the same subdivision. These are generally associated with different tracks. How do we handle these?
What are our actual use cases for mileposts? Without those, it will be difficult to define the data.
Generally, how do we translate our virtual shared view of Chicago into railroad-specific, functional versions?
I was definitely impressed with the challenges we face. After all, this was just one data point. We still had to look at corridors, control points, interchanges and many others. It was only about 10 a.m., and my head was already spinning. Abby wasn't fazed by any of this.
"The railroads have been struggling with these kinds of things for 10 years," she said. "Welcome to GIS."
—David Weinberg
David Weinberg is a data and information architect on Railinc's architecture team. Thanks to Abby Clark and Railinc employees Jason Hood and Bill Coupe for their contributions.
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Committees Guide Railinc Projects Start to Finish
Published Date 3/2/15 11:50 AM
The Chicago Terminal is the busiest and most complex rail terminal in North America. About one-third of all freight rail traffic in the U.S. goes through Chicago. Each day more than 37,500 railcars are processed there and nearly 1,300 trains go through the terminal.
Now imagine trying to develop a multi-layered, digital map of the entire terminal, which is composed of a network of rail carriers that traverse over each others' lines but that operate separately.
One of Railinc's technology projects for 2015 will do just that. The map will include detailed data such as tracks, yards, corridors, trackage rights and capacities and will serve as a foundational resource for future work designed to improve the fluidity of rail traffic through the terminal.
Railinc Customers Shape the Work We Do
Railinc didn't decide on our own to tackle this projects or the related work that will follow. Most of our project work, like this mapping effort, originates each year in industry committees sponsored by the Association of American Railroads.
Industry committees work to ensure the smooth and efficient interline movement of freight, identifying common business problems that can be addressed through centralized data and technology resources, like the ones Railinc develops and manages.
"The committees give railroads and others a chance to help shape and provide input on rules, processes and technologies that have an impact on the movement of freight and on their business operations," said Barbara Bostian, director of our project management office. "Our work with the committees gives us really valuable insights into our customers' needs so we can better serve the industry."
In 2015 alone, we will focus on a dozen critical industry projects that will provide valuable, consequential technology solutions for the freight rail industry. In addition our development of a map of the Chicago Terminal, our work this year will focus on projects that will:
Enable mileage to be assigned to railcars in real time
Implement new data indicators and summaries to support railcar inspections and data sharing
Develop an industry capability to more quickly identify component and equipment failure patterns
Multi-Year Process Leads to Consequential Technologies
Planning for an upcoming calendar year’s projects starts a year in advance, when committees begin to develop detailed proposals that define railroad operational requirements. In some cases, the project will address an industry rule or process change. In most cases, though, projects are part of larger, multi-year programs that focus on solving rail network challenges in areas such as asset health, car hire or traffic fluidity.
The committees give input to the AAR Railinc Project Support Working Committee (RPSWC), which provides business representation and sponsorship from Class I railroads for key initiatives that can facilitate common industry solutions for challenges related to IT and business processes. The goal is to gain consensus from railroads on reasonable, centralized solutions to those challenges.
The RPSWC evaluates and prioritizes project proposals from the AAR committees. Only a dozen or so of the many proposed projects are selected for recommendation to the Railinc Board, which provides final approval.
Once a project begins, we work closely with the sponsoring committee throughout the year to ensure that we meet milestones, make adjustments when necessary and stay focused on the needs of our customers. The committee's guidance and the hard work of our people enable Railinc to deliver products year after year that provide measurable benefits to the freight rail industry.
—Railinc Corporate Communications
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Dabiri-Erewa condemns destruction of vehicles at Nigerian embassy in London
Dabiri-Erewa, in a statement by her media aide, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said such an attitude was unpatriotic and an act of indiscipline.
Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman, Nigerians In the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) [Legit]
Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman, Nigerians In the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), has condemned the attitude of a 32-year old Nigerian, Jeffrey Apkovweta Ewohime who allegedly destroyed properties of the Nigerian embassy in London.
The NIDCOM boss said she received a report that Ewohime went to the Nigeria Embassy in London on Monday.
”He had approached the embassy to collect his passport which expired since November 2017 at about 2 p.m. and was told collection of passports would close at 1 p.m.
”He then insisted on collecting his passport , and was told to bring his collection slip which he could not produce,” she said.
According to reports from the Embassy, it would of course be wrong to hand over his passport to him without his collection slip.
She said that Ewohime thereafter left, agitated and returned from a nearby hotel to destroy about seven cars, five belonging to the mission, and two to visitors who parked nearby.
”His attempt to destroy the High Commissioner’s car failed as it is a bullet proof.
“I am told that he had been arrested by the police.
”He destroyed seven brand new cars , except the Ambassador’s car which is bullet proof.“
This is a despicable act, which must be condemned by all. Of course, the law must take its course,” she said.
Dabiri-Erewa implored Nigerians abroad to exercise restraint and be good ambassadors of Nigeria at all times in all circumstances.
Author: News Agency Of Nigeria Source: Pulse Nigeria
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Facilities Guide
Learning Commons and Libraries
Wo International Center serves as a beacon for educational practices, discussions and international learning through a global perspective. The Center has become a conduit for connection and communication among schools locally and internationally.
The Center provides challenging opportunities and innovative experiences for students and educators. Programs include intensive language instruction, study abroad and summer programs for foreign students, lectures and seminars and professional development programs.
Many of the Center's programs serve as an outreach to the international community by supporting and initiating programs that promote an appreciation of cultural diversity and global responsibility for students both from Punahou and the larger community.
The center houses four classrooms, a telecommunication room, the 150-seat Luke Lecture Hall and conference spaces, as well as office space for Wo International Center program administration and a portion of the Advancement Department.
Language and cultural studies, at beginning and continuing levels, as well as Hawaiian, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese immersion.
School Year Abroad
Junior or senior year or semester immersive study abroad.
School Year Abroad at Punahou
Year Abroad at Punahou for international students entering their 11th year of schooling.
Student Global Leadership Institute
Two-week summit with international partner schools, followed by senior year projects and online collaboration.
Summer Study Trips
Hawai‘i high school students in grades 9 – 11 Immersive several-week trips abroad (varying destinations and educational themes).
Global Ed Curriculum
Community Partnerships Workshops
A collaboration between Punahou School and Catlin Gabel School to support educators looking for innovative ways to connect their classrooms to the community. Available to all educators.
Global Education Teacher Strand
One week of learning, exploring and designing globally focused curriculum with a cohort of educators. Available to all educators.
Teacher Study Trips
Opportunity to collaborate on the development of international curriculum. Available to Punahou faculty.
Beginning in the 1960s, Punahou was home to an outreach organization known as the Foundation for Study in Hawaii and Abroad (FSHA). Led by long-time foreign language and curriculum expert Siegfried Ramler, FSHA brought foreign students to campus each summer to learn English, and sent Hawaii youngsters into the Pacific to learn French, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese.
With a generous gift from Jim '43 and Bob '41 Wo funding construction of a dedicated facility in 1993, FSHA agreed to disband and come under the umbrella of the Wo International Center.
The 150-seat Luke Lecture Hall, honors a major gift by K. J. Luke and his family.
Jim '43 and Bob '41 Wo
Jim '43 and Bob '41 Wo are a team in many aspects of their lives. After working together to take over and transform the family business C. S. Wo and Sons, they continued their partnership in commitment to community organizations.
In addition to the Wo family's generosity, Jim also gave of himself as a Punahou Trustee from 1970 until 2001, serving in a number of leadership capacities.
The brothers' exposure to worldwide business led them to support global studies opportunities for students throughout Hawaii.
Endowed Funds and Scholarships
The Luke Center for Chinese Studies
The Akio and Yoshiko Morita Endowment for International Studies
The Freeman Foundation
The Edward E. Ford Foundation and the Education Research Initiative
The Luke Center for Chinese Studies was established in 1993 by K.J. Luke and family to support innovative programs between Punahou School and China.
Thanks in part to funding by the Luke Center for Chinese Studies, and supported by the Wo International Center, the study of China, its history, civilization, values and language are integrated throughout the school's K-12 curriculum and outreach programs for students, faculty and the community.
Punahou School boasts one of the largest Chinese language programs in the country, and has been supporting immersion experiences in China since 1982.
For students, the Center supports curricular focus on China's culture, language and way of life, beginning in first grade and expanding in later grades, across various disciplines. It also supports immersion experiences through summer and yearlong opportunities in various parts of China, with a focus on study and work in community service projects.
To enhance faculty understanding of China, the Center supports travel groups to China visiting schools and engaging in professional dialogue with local teachers, to collect resources for the classroom and establish contacts for collaborative telecommunication projects. Post-trip grants are also available for teachers to integrate their learning into the curriculum.
The Center supports presentations by distinguished Chinese speakers, artistic performances and cultural displays, which are open to the community.
Projects in China supported by the Center include teaching English in Baojing (a rural village of ethnic minorities in Hunan) and ongoing projects with the Soong Ching Ling Foundation and the Beijing Normal University school system.
The endowment, with its overall themes of technology and international study, supports creative ideas from inspired faculty and other school leaders:
Changing technology needs of language study and global communication
International cultural resource programs including music, art, drama, folklore
"Morita Scholars" program for student exchange program development or scholarships
"Morita Fellows" program for faculty development or exchange programs
The Freeman Foundation has provided program and scholarship funding since 2002, supporting Wo International Center initiatives focusing on alliances with Asia – student and teacher programs that promote growth, leadership, and a deeper understanding between the United States and Asia.
Funding from these two organizations supports theStudent Global Leadership Institute, a two-week program that develops a community of international student leaders to work collaboratively on initiatives for social change.
Ethan Abbott
Brenda Foster
Ricardo Leong
Dr. Rosita Leong
Mary Lou Lewis
Jan Luke Loo
Warren K.K. Luke
Allen Murabayashi
Hideo Morita (in Japan)
Siegfried Ramler
Butch Reddy
Chai Reddy (Director)
Dr. James Scott (President)
Robert Torrey
Robert W. Wo (Bub)
John Field, Jr.
Dr. Emily McCarren
Kathy Nelson
Dr. Paris Priore-Kim
wocenter@punahou.edu
Hours: M – F, 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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QCI LAW OVERCOMES RFE of Kazakh Kickboxing Phenom Izim Izbaki to Receive Approval for 3 year P visa Status as Debut Pro Boxer
For Immediate Release -
Charlotte, NC, USA (November 20, 2018) –
Charlotte based Queen City Immigration Law (“QCI Law”) is pleased to announce a successful P visa petition for Kazakh Kickboxer Izim Izbaki who will be making their professional boxing debut soon with Salita Promotions in the United States. Izim Ibaki is a giant amongst his kickboxing contemporaries standing over 6’9” and weighing close to 300lbs. Queen City Immigration Law was able to overcome several obstacles to prove he is an international talent for boxing even though he has never competed in a professional boxing match in his entire career.
The Kazakh kickboxer obtained his P visa through his promoting company, Salita Promotions, which will last for about three years and allow the Izim to compete in United States and travel freely in and out of the country. This petition was particularly difficult because United States Immigration and Citizenship Services (“USCIS”) is very strict on how it determines an athlete’s international acclaim. USCIS initial position was that Izim Izbaki is internationally known as a kickboxer and not as a boxer, which would preclude him from obtaining the P visa.
Partner, Sherrod Seward, the lead attorney on the case and practice manager for QCI Law’s s ports based immigration practice pressed back on the issue with USCIS to explain how Izim Izbaki’s skill set and size translate well into the sport of boxing. “I pretty much had to explain to them in great detail that for one, boxing is kickboxing without kicking, and second, that the skillset of Izim for a man his size is phenomenal on its own,” partner Sherrod Seward says. “I am glad we had connections with the top combat organizations and media insiders in the world to help support us in this argument.”
Driving the point to USCIS is an understatement, Sherrod and the team at Queen City Immigration Law overcame an extensive request for evidence with a well tailored argument and support letters from some of the premier combat sport industry professionals in the world. Queen City Immigration would like to extend a special thanks to Glory Kickboxing ( The premier Kickboxing Promotion in the World), Dmitry Salita of Salita Promotions, the World Boxing Council, and the world class media insiders that assisted us Queen City Immigration Law with this petition. The work was well worth it as Queen City Immigration Law was able to identify, prepare for, and overcome all of the concerns of USCIS when it comes to a world class kickboxer obtaining multi-year P visa status to compete as a professional boxer.
ABOUT QUEEN CITY IMMIGRATION LAW
Queen City Immigration Law is a Charlotte, North Carolina-based full-service immigration law firm that focuses on the strategic needs of combat sports athletes and professionals all over the world. Our firm specializes in purposeful, intelligent and thorough representation in P and O visa categories for athletes, trainers, and coaches. We also advocate for combat sports business professionals with employment and investment based visa solutions. For exceptional service to the community, we have attorneys and staff with fluency in French, Vietnamese, Spanish, and Polish languages. Other languages are easily accommodated upon request.
All our clients have to do to get started with the QCI Law P Visa Challenge is to visit www.qcilaw.com. For more information, do not hesitate to call our offices at (704) 741-9002.
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What is LNA and Why is it Such a Powerful Research Tool?
LNA enhancement enables highly sensitive and specific analysis of short RNA and DNA targets
LNA oligonucleotides have substantially increased affinity for their complementary strand, when compared with traditional DNA or RNA oligonucleotides. This results in unprecedented sensitivity and specificity and makes LNA-enhanced oligos excellent tools for detecting and differentiating small or highly similar DNA or RNA targets in many research applications.
What are locked nucleic acids (LNA)?
Why use LNA?
Tm normalization – robust detection regardless of GC content
Superior single nucleotide discrimination
LNA in miRNA studies
Broad applicability
Discover our LNA-enhanced research tools
Locked nucleic acids are a class of high-affinity RNA analogs in which the ribose ring is "locked" in the ideal conformation for Watson-Crick binding (see figure Structure of LNA). As a result, LNA oligonucleotides exhibit unprecedented thermal stability when hybridized to a complementary DNA or RNA strand. For each incorporated LNA monomer, the melting temperature (Tm) of the duplex increases by 2–8°C (see figure Replace DNA with LNA for higher melting temperature). In addition, LNA oligonucleotides can be made shorter than traditional DNA or RNA oligonucleotides and still retain a high Tm. This is important when the oligonucleotide is used to detect small or highly similar targets.
Since LNA oligonucleotides typically consist of a mixture of LNA and DNA or RNA, it is possible to optimize the sensitivity and specificity by varying the LNA content of the oligonucleotide. Incorporation of LNA into oligonucleotides has been shown to improve sensitivity and specificity for many hybridization-based technologies including PCR, microarrays and in situ hybridization (ISH).
LNA has been successfully used to overcome the difficulties of studying very short sequences and has greatly improved, and in many cases enabled, specific and sensitive detection of non-coding RNA and other small RNA molecules. The unique ability of LNA oligonucleotides to discriminate between highly similar sequences has been further exploited in a number of applications targeting longer RNA sequences, such as mRNA. In addition, LNA has been successfully used for detection of low-abundance nucleic acids and chromosomal DNA.
The benefits of LNA include:
Significantly increased sensitivity compared to DNA and RNA oligos/probes
Robust detection of all miRNA sequences, regardless of GC content
Superior detection from challenging samples, such as biofluids and FFPE samples
Increased target specificity compared to DNA and RNA probes
Enables detection of single nucleotide mismatches
Superior discrimination of miRNA families
High in vivo and in vitro stability
Enables high potency binding to RNA and DNA
Superior antisense inhibition of small RNA targets in vivo
The affinity-enhancing effects of LNA give LNA oligonucleotides strand invasion properties, making LNA excellent for in vivo applications. Incorporation of LNA into oligonucleotides further increases resistance to endonucleases and exonucleases, which leads to high in vitro and in vivo stability.
Since the physical properties (e.g., water solubility) of these sequences are very similar to those of RNA and DNA, conventional experimental protocols can easily be adjusted for their use.
Tm normalization enables robust detection, regardless of GC content. The Tm of a nucleotide duplex can be controlled by varying the LNA content. This feature can be used to normalize the Tm across a population of short sequences with varying GC-content. For AT-rich nucleotides, which give low melting temperatures, more LNA is incorporated into the LNA oligonucleotide to raise the Tm of the duplex. This enables the design of LNA oligonucleotides with a narrow Tm range, which is beneficial in many research applications such as microarrays, PCR and other applications in which sensitive and specific binding to many different targets must occur under the same conditions simultaneously. The power of Tm-normalization is demonstrated by the comparison of DNA and LNA probes for detection of miRNA targets with a range of CG content (see figure The power of Tm normalization).
Intelligent placement of LNA monomers can also ensure excellent discrimination between closely related sequences down to as little as one nucleotide difference. The difference in Tm between a perfectly matched and a mismatched target is the ΔTm. Incorporation of LNA in oligonucleotides can increase the ΔTm between perfect match and mismatch binding by up to 8°C. The increase in ΔTm enables better discrimination between closely related sequences, such as members of miRNA families.
Superior results from challenging samples
The increase in sensitivity and specificity of LNA-enhanced oligonucleotides makes them ideal for challenging applications, in which the target is present at low levels.
For example, LNA-enhanced PCR primers are superior for quantifying short RNAs in small amounts of biofluids, such as serum and plasma (1), and LNA-enhanced capture probes offer excellent sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratios in FFPE samples, where short RNA targets, such as miRNAs, are present in a background of highly degraded RNA.
The small sizes and widely varying GC content (5–95%) of miRNAs make them challenging to analyze using traditional methods. The use of DNA- or RNA-based technologies for miRNA analysis can introduce high uncertainty and low robustness, because the Tm of the oligonucleotide/miRNA duplex will vary greatly depending on the GC content of the sequences. This is especially problematic in applications such as microarray profiling and high-throughput experiments involving the analysis of many miRNA targets under the same experimental conditions.
These challenges in miRNA analysis can be overcome by using LNA-enhanced oligonucleotides. By simply varying the LNA content, oligonucleotides with specific duplex melting temperatures can be designed, regardless of the GC content of the miRNA. We have used LNA technology to Tm-normalize primers, probes and inhibitors, to ensure that they all perform well under the same experimental conditions (see figure LNA miRNA inhibitors have high uniform potency).
Another challenge of studying miRNAs is the high degree of similarity between the sequences. Some miRNA family members vary by a single nucleotide. LNA can be used to enhance the discriminatory power of primers and probes to allow excellent discrimination of closely related miRNA sequences. LNA offers significant improvement in sensitivity and specificity and ensures optimal performance for all miRNA targets.
Broad applicability across application areas
The unique characteristics of LNA make it a powerful tool, not only for miRNA research but also for detection of low-abundance, short or highly similar targets in a number of applications.
miRNA analysis:
Real-time, quantitative PCR
Northern blotting
Bead-based applications
Inhibition of RNA function
DNA analysis:
SNP detection by allele-specific PCR
Chromosomal FISH
Comparative genome hybridization
Proteomics of isolated chromatin segments (PICh)
Antigene inhibition
ncRNA analysis:
Fluorescence-activated cell sorting
RNA modification (frame shifting, exon skipping)
mRNA analysis:
DNAzymes
QIAGEN offers a diverse portfolio of high-performance LNA-enhanced tools to help you get to scientific insights more quickly. Find the right tool for your particular application using the links below:
miRNA quantification by qPCR
RNA/miRNA functional analysis
RNA/miRNA localization studies
1. Jensen et al. (2011) Evaluation of two commercial global miRNA expression profiling platforms for detection of less abundant miRNAs. BMC Genomics. 12:435. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-435.
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Supported Shooters
Robert Nibbs Rifle-Maker Ltd was formed in England, 2013. With over 25 years experience in engineering, rifle design and manufacturing Robert Nibbs and his work have become known worldwide. Having represented Great Britain in Smallbore Rifle (both Prone and Three Position), and later working with National Squads as a coach for several nations, across small-bore and fullbore shooting disciplines, Robert has a diverse sporting knowledge to compliment his technical abilities.
Roberts work with System Gemini can be seen on firing points from 25 yards to 1200 yards, and beyond, all over the world. System Gemini products have won medals at all levels including at the 2012 London Olympics.
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Telephone: +44(0)7973 65 65 98
Robert Nibbs Ltd is registered in England. Company Number: 88374.
Registered Office: Suite 70, Capital Business Centre, 22, Carlton Road, South Croydon, CR2 0BS.
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TAMS II – Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme II
Sector: Agriculture
Grant schemes for on farm investment have long been part of the Irish farming scene. In 2015, after a lot of thought, planning and negotiation, we had the introduction of a new five year investment programme termed TAMS II – Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme II.
The sums surrounding TAMS II look attractive. Overall a budget of €395 Million is penned in for the six years and €175 Million of this is allocated to the Animal Welfare, Safety and Nutrient Storage Scheme eg farm buildings.
Individual applications can attract 60% grant aid on investments of up to €80,000 for qualifying young farmers and 40% grant for up to €80k investment by farmers with no age restriction. That amounts to potential grant payments of €48k or €32k, depending on the category of the applicant, for carrying out desirable farm improvements.
However the TAMS II scheme has some fundamental differences to anything that has gone before it.
All applications have to be made on-line.
Applications will be made in tranches of three months with the final closing date of end of December 2020. Farmers can make multiple applications provided they come in under the overall grant ceiling.
At the end of each application period the Department marking list will assess and rank the merits of the applications in the three months before issuing approvals.
TAMS II may be experiencing some teething delays but very much up and running. The first tranche for the qualifying Young Farmer Scheme, which closed during September, attracted some 6,300 applications. In mid October none of these applicants have been issued with approval notices. So as yet no actual concrete has been poured under the TAMS II scheme.
October 30 2015 is the closing date nominated for the widely available 40% grant Animal Welfare, Safety and Nutrient Storage Scheme. The same closing date has been nominated for the Pig and Poultry Investment Scheme which also includes a 40% grant up to a ceiling of an €80 k investment.
Meanwhile the application for the second tranche of the Young Farm Scheme grants is again underway. Probably in the near future the Department of Agriculture will adjust the tranche application periods for the various TAMS II schemes so that they all run concurrently.
To date Ireland’s tillage farmers have been excluded from the TAMS II grants but it is expected that Farm Minister Coveney will shortly announce grant aid towards grain storage. Farm organisations are also pressing for sheep fencing and road underpasses to be included in TAMS II schemes. The absence of road underpasses is seen as a deterrent to dairy expansion on many farms, and the official policy is geared towards growth in dairy output.
There is a minimum of €2000 in grant payment which means a minimum project outlay of €5,000 where the 40% grant applies.
Every TAMS II application which includes buildings must be accompanied by planning permission or exemption for the unit, Applications must be compliant with adequate slurry and waste water storage on livestock farms.
Materials and building must the up to specification .
Generally the specs are there for a good reason. This is an opportunity for us farmers not to repeat the mistakes of the past. In particular I look at the foolish shortcuts I made in laying concrete 40 years ago. Where the correct foundations, strength of concrete, depth and concrete curing was done, the job is still 100%. Where shortcuts were taken, I will have to invest again.
Author John Shirley
Roadstone Farmcrete – Concrete for the farm
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As IndiGo Faces Turbulence, Regulators Intensify Scrutiny of Governance Lapses
New Delhi: With promoter spat intensifying at the country’s largest airline IndiGo, markets watchdog SEBI and the corporate affairs ministry have started digging deep into allegations of governance lapses and violations that could force the government to override existing arrangements and pacts at InterGlobe Aviation, officials said.
Bringing into public the differences between long-time friends and promoters of IndiGo into the open, Rakesh Gangwal has sought SEBI’s intervention into alleged corporate governance lapses at the company and even said that ‘paan ki dukaan’ (betel shop) would have managed things with more grace.
InterGlobe Aviation, which got listed in 2015, has come under intense regulatory scanner and there are indications of multiple violations of SEBI norms. The role of each and every entity associated with all board members and entities linked to the promoters are being probed amid signs of lapses in complying with governance requirements, fair market trade and insider trading norms, the officials said.
One of the major issues raised by Gangwal was about related party transactions involving co-founder Rahul Bhatia’s InterGlobe Enterprises (IGE) Group and the allegations have been refuted by the Bhatia camp.
An official said the corporate affairs ministry would be seeking a “para-wise comments” from the company on Gangwal’s complaint and would also be looking at the related party transactions.
With the promoter feud igniting concerns over corporate governance practices at InterGlobe Aviation, the ministry would examine whether memorandum, articles, agreements and resolutions are in consonance with provisions of the Companies Act. The company could face strict regulatory action, including overriding of existing pacts, in case there are violations of the Act.
The official said the ministry can even invoke powers under Section 6 of the Companies Act, 2013.
Section 6 provides powers to override any memorandum, articles, agreements or resolutions passed at general meeting or by the board of directors in case they violate norms. Following Gangwal’s letter to SEBI, the ministry and others, the markets regulator has sought response from the company by July 19. Against this backdrop, Sebi has also widended its probe, launched a few months ago, into suspicious insider trading violations in the shares of InterGlobe Aviation.
The officials said that a number of executives and board members are likely to be summoned by the markets regulator.
Among the issues flagged by Gangwal are that various related party transactions with the IGE Group were executed without seeking the audit committee’s approval and without seeking competitive bids from third parties, and non-appointment of an independent woman director.
Regarding the board’s decision to reject request for an extraordinary general meeting, Gangwal alleged that legal requirements and basic governance norms were violated by not providing board members timely material facts prior to voting by board.
On July 12, Bhatia’ IGE Group said the company is well run, financially sound and managed by a competent set of managers as it termed Gangwal’s allegations of governance lapses as much ado about nothing. Gangwal and his affiliates own around 37 per cent stake in InterGlobe Aviation while Bhatia and his IGE Group has about 38 per cent shareholding.
Source: News18
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How to Manage the Risk of Losing API Access
API University
Analysis, API Strategy, Aggregation, Contracts, Mapping
By Mark Boyd, ProgrammableWeb Staff
Businesses that consume APIs, whether to build products or manage internal workflows, need to treat APIs the same way they would any other supply good in their value chain. Risk managers and business strategists need to determine the size of the risk associated with consumption of an API. For example, several banks are beginning to consume the Google Maps API to show locations of their ATMs and branches. If there was a problem with accessing that API, you could argue that it could be a low risk that didn’t affect the business so much. But if Yelp were to have difficulties accessing the API, that would be a high risk to their business model as providing business locations is central to their product. (Please note, in addition to their Google Maps usage, Yelp also use Apple Maps for their iOS app).
So when a business risk assessor identifiers API suppliers that are crucial to their value chain, they then need to list some potential scenarios in which that access may be restricted and identify strategies that could be implemented both now (in order to reduce the future risk), and at any time the risk becomes real (in order to ensure an alternative supply source is available as quickly as possible).
Recently, RouteBuilder experienced the potential sudden loss of access to the Google Maps API. Fortunately for RouteBuilder, their app is a personal project that does not have a business model to it, and in addition, Google Maps quickly reversed their decision to restrict access. But the example highlights several issues that are worth exploring as an example of a risk management scenario that API consumers need to address in their business plans.
What Happened with RouteBuilder
Developer Andrew Martin created RouteBuilder as a personal project in 2006 after having traveled with his wife to San Francisco. They wondered how much they had walked the streets of the city by the bay, and so Martin went about building RouteBuilder to map out their pedestrian meanderings. “The ambitions for RouteBuilder were limited to creating a tool I’d find useful and sharing it with others,” Martin told ProgrammableWeb.
Today, the tool is used by hikers, bike tours, and marathon organizers. Most notably, the tool was used recently by the NAACP to guide marchers to the #JourneyforJustice march, to protest against racial profiling, police brutality and the militarization of local authorities (click on “route” in the following link to see how RouteBuilder was used.)
On January 6, the Google Maps API team wrote to Martin noting that the application used a ‘wrapper’ in contravention of the Terms of Service, and that as such, unless the app was altered to meet compliance, access to the API would be restricted.
Martin tried to contact the Google Maps team but did not receive an immediate reply, and took to Medium so he could try and engage a community to support him as the clock ticked down on his fourteen day period.
Leveraging developer community support in this way prompted the Google Maps API team to review the case again, and access was quickly restored, with Google noting that the message was sent in error and that RouteBuilder was never under threat of being closed off from API access.
What Business Can Learn From This Example
This would have no doubt been a personal blow and disheartening for Martin to see the work he started ten years ago — and that is helping fundraising activities, community organizations and recreation lovers to better plan and share their maps — come to an end, or at least require a complete overhaul in order to be maintained.
But if RouteBuilder was a business product that required using APIs from third parties in order to deliver value to customers, then the initiation of a threat to restrict API access would have larger business impacts. As DataSift saw with the removal of access to the Twitter firehose, and the confusion that Sunlight Foundation has had to endure through being denied and then re-supplied with tweets for the Politwoops data access, having ongoing access to an API is akin to a business losing a key raw material, in much the same way that a soft drink manufacturer must maintain access to aluminium for their cans, or sugar for their drinks. Lack of access to an API would mean the business would need to find a substitute API with similar capabilities, or close off features (and therefore potentially lose revenue) associated from that API-enabled service.
Be sure to read the next API Strategy article: How Proprietary Thinking Could Undermine The Internet of Things
Mark Boyd is a ProgrammableWeb writer covering breaking news, API business strategies and models, open data, and smart cities.
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Why Organizations Need Values-Driven Hope
Gary Edmonds
General, Global, Immigration & Refugees, Practical Justice
Much has been said over the last several decades about why organizations should be values-driven and how to recognize one that is. Becoming values-driven takes more than just writing down a bunch of great-sounding words. An organization’s values must drive the culture, strategies, and decision-making.
I think Food for the Hungry’s (FH) core values are worth sharing with others moved by faith because regardless of what one is called to do, I believe these capture the heartbeat of God, align with the vision to follow God’s call, and guide us as we decide what we’re to be doing:
We follow Jesus.
Our work is relational.
We invest wisely and focus on results.
We serve with humility.
We pursue beauty, goodness, and truth.
In the many years I’ve been a part of this particular organization— as a donor, a church partner, a board member, and now as President and CEO — I’ve participated in many conversations about naming values that reflect Food for the Hungry’s particular calling: ending all forms of human poverty worldwide. We’ve found that while the way we may express these values is adapted to different settings, their essence remains the same and that’s important.
Expressed values inspire, energize, and perhaps most importantly during times like these, they offer hope. Sometimes that hope is found in the most unexpected places.
FH had to hit the ground running as camps filled with Rohingya refugees who were forced to flee for their lives from Myanmar into Bangladesh. These crowded settlements of homes made with donated bamboo sticks and plastic sheets probably seem like the last place on earth to find hope. Mothers here wait to name their babies until they’re sure their children will survive. Children walk through raw sewage on dirt paths, and diarrhea takes the lives of way too many of them.
But then there is the young man, once an English teacher until soldiers set his village on fire, now living in this settlement that stretches as far as he can see. His situation is very difficult, but he has found purpose by volunteering as a community health worker trained by FH. He teaches fellow refugees about water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices, and he has learned about basic disease detection to help reverse the trend of deadly diarrhea. To me, when neighbors helping neighbors overcome health issues so that babies can receive names the day they’re born, there is evidence that Jesus, relational work, results, humility and goodness — our core values — are in action in our daily work.
Having common values has built a level of increased commitment and resolve throughout our global organization. They make it easy for us to decide to take on hard tasks when we go to some of the world’s hardest places; and they give us the humility to understand that we walk together with those we serve.
What we learned long ago is that we need to talk with, not at, community members and get their involvement in the development process. We ask them what they think their biggest needs are; what they think chains them in poverty. We work together with them to develop a plan and help them implement it. We make it clear to the community that they bring as much to the table as we do. We measure their progress. And we move on when we know they can carry on without our partnership. Our goal is to leave a community within 10 to 15 years. And every time we do, it’s cause for celebration.
I recently saw a woman sweeping around her front door, carefully avoiding a beautiful flower that decorated her tiny dwelling in an urban slum. To me, the flower and the woman proclaimed that the reign of God’s peace had taken over the hearts of this family, even in this hard place. I saw in this woman someone who understands the truth that she has value because she was made in the image of God. I saw someone who has hope for her future and for her children. She has found beauty, goodness, and truth. And that is also cause for celebration — and hope.
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Gary Edmonds has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Food For The Hungry, Inc. since 2014. Prior to joining Food For The Hungry, Edmonds served as President of Breakthrough Partners, an organization that empowers and coaches leaders in the world's most vulnerable communities to end poverty by mobilizing every sector of their society to take responsibility for their own development. He has vast experience in business development, leadership structure, strategy development, and global collaboration.
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Brave Liz Warren Brags About Nobly Turning Down “Hate-for Profit” Fox News’s Town Hall Offer
Posted at 7:00 pm on May 14, 2019 by Brandon Morse
Fox News allegedly offered Democratic 2020 candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren a platform for a town hall, but Warren is now bragging that she turned it down because it would only help the “hate-for-profit machine” Fox News.
According to a page on Elizabeth Warren’s website, you’re hit with bold all-caps letters that read: “FOX NEWS INVITED ELIZABETH TO DO A TOWN HALL. SHE TURNED THEM DOWN.”
This is then followed by an explanation as to why:
A Democratic town hall gives the Fox News sales team a way to tell potential sponsors it’s safe to buy ads on Fox — no harm to their brand or reputation. So Elizabeth won’t ask millions of Democratic primary voters to tune into an outlet that profits from racism and hate in order to see our candidates.
Below that is a call to fight “profits from racism and hate” by signing up for Warren’s mailing list.
Charming.
Warren also took to Twitter for a hard-earned victory lap.
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“Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists—it’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class,” tweeted Warren.
“Hate-for-profit works only if there’s profit, so Fox News balances a mix of bigotry, racism, and outright lies with enough legit journalism to make the claim to advertisers that it’s a reputable news outlet. It’s all about dragging in ad money—big ad money,” she added.
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1128314854622859265
Hate-for-profit works only if there’s profit, so Fox News balances a mix of bigotry, racism, and outright lies with enough legit journalism to make the claim to advertisers that it’s a reputable news outlet. It’s all about dragging in ad money—big ad money.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 14, 2019
Warren then claimed that Fox News is struggling due to loss of advertisers in their “hate-filled” space and that Warren’s presence would signal to corporations (corporations she’s promising to strangle if she’s elected) that it’s okay to run ads on Fox News.
But Fox News is struggling as more and more advertisers pull out of their hate-filled space. A Democratic town hall gives the Fox News sales team a way to tell potential sponsors it's safe to buy ads on Fox—no harm to their brand or reputation (spoiler: It’s not).
If the claim is true, Fox News still hasn’t confirmed it as of this writing.
The thing is, Fox News offering Warren a platform would be doing her a favor. At this time, CNN and MSNBC combined can’t equal out to the prime time viewership of Fox News.
What’s more, Fox News isn’t struggling monetarily as Bloomberg seemed to begrudgingly admit at the end of last March:
The new Fox is valued at $23 billion, most of which hinges on the success of Fox News. About 90 percent of Fox Corp.’s cable-network Ebitda may come from the Fox News brand, estimates Michael Nathanson, an analyst for MoffettNathanson LLC. And with Fox News Channel’s cash-flow margin of nearly 60 percent in 2018, it has a big lead over Comcast Corp.’s MSNBC and AT&T Inc.’s CNN, according to estimates by Kagan, a unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence.
The likely story is that Warren is afraid of appearing on Fox News. There are questions she doesn’t want to be asked, and answers she’d rather not be seen giving, or more likely, not giving. There are narratives she’d rather keep intact, and the idea of any further embarrassment on her part is likely a terrifying concept for her.
It’s not likely that Warren is going to win the nomination, much less the White House. Trump knows how to get under her skin, and she demonstrated it gloriously with an unnecessary DNA test. For Warren, Fox News is frightening. It would be great exposure, but it would be exposed in a forum that would be challenging.
If Warren has learned anything, run-ins with the truth are damaging to her brand.
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These Fuller House Stars Have An Everlasting Love
Even Lori Loughlin's Husband Thinks She Belongs With John Stamos
Elizabeth Kiefer
Lori Loughlin and John Stamos have a history together — as both longtime buds and a married couple on Full House, and now, its revival. But apparently, once upon a time, Uncle Jesse may have hoped for something more.
Back in 2013, Stamos called Loughlin his "one that got away." And while Loughlin — who is married to fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli — hasn't said she feels the same, she does seem to want to memorialize them.
"I’m going to put that on my tombstone — 'the one that got away,'" she recently told FOX411. "I’m going to take it right to the grave with me."
Even Loughlin's husband agrees that she's the one who got away from Stamos. "My husband loves John so much," she explained. "In fact, on my Instagram, when people comment you know, 'You should marry John Stamos' and 'You should be with John,' he always comments, 'I agree. She should have married John Stamos.'"
"He has a very good sense of humor about it and they’re very good friends," she added.
"I kissed a girl and I liked it". Grateful for the 1m followers. Thank you.
A photo posted by John Stamos (@johnstamos) on Jan 18, 2016 at 9:39pm PST
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Craddock's "Right Marital Living"
For those who enjoy historical tidbits about others who wrestled with how to channel their sexual energy upward, "Right Marital Living" is a colorful piece with an aura of tragedy.
Its author, Ida Craddock, was a Philadelphian born in 1857, heavily influenced by Theosophical Society works and other mystical writings, some of which were just appearing from the Far East in translation. Her essays on newlywed sex, sacred sexuality and natural birth control drew fire from a man named Anthony Comstock and his self-appointed "Society for the Suppression of Vice," who had her writings declared obscene, and therefore illegal to send through the mail. She was arrested twice.
In 1902, on the day she was to be sentenced the second time, she committed suicide leaving behind an outraged letter to the public. Her suicide brought disgrace to the "Society for the Suppression of Vice," which disbanded not long afterward. Craddock had at least two lovers (the second one a married minister and karezza expert), taught sacred sex techniques for years. She also wrote a book providing historical context for her marriage with a disembodied entity named Soph (a deceased young man whom she had known as a child). Vist these pages written by her biographer for a fuller glimpse into her life.
She also wrote Psychic Wedlock. This latter paper outlines a three-degree system of mystical initiation through sexual techniques. It was written around 1895.
Although she advised containing semen and writes about the joys of sexual self-control on the part of the woman as well, she believed that orgasm was still part of the sacred sex picture for both sexes. Her misunderstanding on this point may be why she could not sustain an earthly relationship, and may have contributed to her possible instability. Her experience indirectly confirms the wisdom of using sexual power gently to mutually strengthen relationships rather than placing the emphasis on forcing sexual energy upward for its own sake. Craddock’s peer, Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham demonstrated a clearer understanding of safe sacred sex. (See also the beautiful work of another Karezza advocate, J. William Lloyd.)
Like tantra teacher Diana Richardson, Craddock points out the flow of erotic feelings from breast to genitals in women in The Wedding Night:
If you are patient and loverlike and gentlemanly and considerate and do not seek to unduly precipitate matters, you will find that Nature will herself arrange the affair for you most delicately and beautifully. If you will first thoroughly satisfy the primal passion of the woman, which is affectional and maternal (for the typical woman mothers the man she loves), and if you will kiss and caress her in a gentle, delicate and reverent way, especially at the throat and bosom, you will find that, little by little (perhaps not the first night nor the second night, but eventually, as she grows accustomed to the strangeness of the intimacy), you will, by reflex action from the bosom to the genitals, successfully arouse within her a vague desire for the entwining of the lower limbs, with ever closer and closer contact, until you melt into one another's embrace at the genitals in a perfectly natural and wholesome fashion; and you will then find her genitals so well lubricated with an emission from her glands of Bartholin, and, possibly, also from her vagina, that your gradual entrance can be effected not only without pain to her, but with a rapture so exquisite to her, that she will be more ready to invite your entrance upon a future occasion.
Despite the flaws in her work, Craddock emphasized the importance of a focus on the sacred in her work. Here are some of the more inspired excerpts from "Right Marital Living":
An impression prevails among both physicians and the laity, that to exercise the organs of the love function without also at least an abortive attempt on the man's part at exercising the parental function, will be prejudicial to his nervous system, and, consequently to his health. That is, that it is dangerous to suppress the ejaculation of semen during coition. This may be true, if the act of suppression be performed merely as a means for bodily, sensual enjoyment. It is not true, however, if the mentality (which, in its turn, as we all know, governs the nervous system) be kept in a state of serenity and exaltation, so that the inner spiritual forces may be brought into play....
I speak from the standpoint of a teacher of over six years' experience, when I insist to my pupils on the importance of aspiration to the highest during the marital embrace. Many a libertine stumbles upon this possibility of suppression of the orgasm, and, with it, the suppression of the ejaculation of semen, and practises it for awhile, only to find at last that he has wrought great harm to his nervous system, and has, possibly, also enlarged his prostate gland. But the libertine seeks mainly sensual gratification, and when he prolongs the act by suppression of the orgasm, it is with the thought of increased sensual, bodily pleasure distinctly in his mind. He would be the last person to think of praying to God at that moment, or seeking to enter into harmony with Nature, or trying to turn his thoughts, during sex union, resolutely toward the Ultimate Force or the Unconscious Energy of the universe. ...
An approach too little practised between husbands and wives--is the chastity of relation possible in a close embrace, in one another's arms, night after night, with accompanying kisses and caresses, but with no genital contact....In right marital living, the nude embrace comes to be respected more and more, and finally reverenced, as a pure and beautiful approach to the sacred moment when husband and wife shall melt into one another's genital embrace, so that the twain shall be one flesh, and then, as of old, God will walk with the twain in the garden of bliss "in the cool of the day," when the heat of ill-regulated passion is no more.
"The intense pleasure of the orgasm," says Albert Chavannes of Knoxville, Tennessee, a writer on psychological subjects, "is not, as it is usually supposed, due to the ejection of the semen. While they are coincident, it is quite possible for men to prevent, by the use of will-force, the emission of semen at the time of the orgasm.... The enjoyment of sexual intercourse is due to the generating of a current of sexual magnetism, created by a certain degree of affinity between the parties, and increased by friction.
When this current has become sufficiently strong, and a certain amount of magnetism has accumulated around the sexual organs, an overflow--orgasm--takes place, which, in obedience to inherited tendencies, sends a magnetic current to the testicles and causes a discharge of the seminal fluid. It is Nature's method to procure conception. "Magnetation is the application of the power which man possesses of controlling this overflow, preventing it from taking its usual course and causing the usual discharge, and compelling it to take another direction. That direction is the dissemination of the magnetism through the system of both the man and the woman, the woman assimilating the magnetism of the man and the man that of the woman. Magnetation requires for its successful practice self-control, affinity and union of purpose, but under right conditions it permits the full enjoyment of the overflow without the weakening influence of the emission.... Magnetation is the art of regulating the course taken by the overflow of sexual magnetism. Uncontrolled, it goes to the testicles and causes an emission. Controlled, it diffuses itself through the organism."
...For many, many centuries, men have been perverting the natural functions of their sexual organism, until that which is really the best way has come to seem impossible to the many, and unwise to the few who have learned that it is not impossible. I refer to the suppression of the ejaculation of the semen upon all occasions, except at the time when the creation of a child has been prepared for by both husband and wife....
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December 14, 2017 / 7:30 PM / in 2 years
Argentina Congress suspends pension reform vote due to protests
Luc Cohen
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina’s lower house on Thursday suspended a vote on President Mauricio Macri’s pension reform plan, after the debate became a shouting match and protesters and police clashed violently outside Congress.
The bill, which passed the Senate last month, is crucial for Macri’s efforts to cut the fiscal deficit but has drawn criticism from opposition politicians and labor unions, who say it will hurt retirees and welfare recipients.
Before Thursday’s scheduled vote, the country’s top union called a general strike for the following day. Demonstrators threw stones at metal barriers set up outside parliament, and security forces responded with rubber bullets and tear gas.
The incident showed strong obstacles remain for Macri’s pro-business agenda, which includes tax and labor reforms. While his “Let’s Change” coalition swept October’s legislative midterm vote, he lacks a majority in either chamber.
“We will not back down,” opposition lawmaker Mirta Tundis told local television. “It is outrageous that year after year, those who have less are affected most.”
The pension reform would change the formula used to calculate benefits. Payments would adjust every quarter based on inflation, rather than the current system of twice-yearly adjustments linked to wage rises and tax revenue.
Economists say the current formula means benefits go up in line with past inflation. Left unchanged, that could harm Macri’s efforts to cut the fiscal deficit.
Under the new formula, benefits would increase by 5 percentage points above inflation, according to Cabinet Chief Marcos Pena. The plan would take effect at a time of lower inflation expectations, hence slowing the pace of pension benefit increases.
“This formula guarantees the sustainability of the system and that retirees will not lose to inflation,” Macri-allied lawmaker Luciano Laspina told reporters.
Macri is aiming to cut the fiscal deficit to 3.2 percent of gross domestic product next year from 4.2 percent this year, and to reduce inflation to 8-12 percent from above 20 percent this year.
($1 = 17.4300 Argentine pesos)
Reporting by Maximiliano Rizzi and Luc Cohen; Editing by David Gregorio
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>> Henderson
Fire at Henderson apartments displaces 11, causes $300K in damage
An accidental attic fire at a Henderson apartment complex Wednesday night displaced 11 people and caused $300,000 in damage.
By Mike Shoro / Las Vegas Review-Journal
Technicians repairing an air handler above an apartment called 911 about 6:45 p.m. after setting fire to some combustible debris, according to a Henderson Fire Department news release.
“They tried to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher, but the flames spread too quickly, and they were forced to evacuate,” the release said.
Firefighters arrived to the Martinique Bay Apartments, 3000 High View Drive, near Green Valley Parkway and Sunset Road, to find heavy smoke coming from the roof of the two-story building.
Crews attacked the fire from the inside, but the roof partially collapsed, prompting them to take a more defensive approach from the outside, the release said. They were able to bring the fire under control.
Fire, smoke and water damaged six apartment units at a value of about $300,000, the release said. The fire was determined to be accidental.
Eight adults and three children were forced from their homes, the release said. Nobody was injured.
The Clark County Fire Department assisted with the call.
Contact Mike Shoro at mshoro@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5290. Follow @mike_shoro on Twitter.
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>> Nation and World
US expands probe into air bag failures to 12.3M vehicles
U.S. auto safety regulators have expanded an investigation into malfunctioning air bag controls to include 12.3 million vehicles because the bags may not inflate in a crash. The problem could be responsible for as many as eight deaths.
By Tom Krisher The Associated Press
Updated April 23, 2019 - 7:08 am
This undated combination of photos shows clockwise from top left the logos for Toyota, Honda, Kia, Fiat Chrysler, Mitsubishi and Hyundai. U.S. auto safety regulators have expanded an investigation into malfunctioning air bag controls to include 12.3 million vehicles because the bags may not inflate in a crash. Vehicles made by Toyota, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, Mitsubishi and Fiat Chrysler from the 2010 through 2019 model years are included in the probe, which was revealed Tuesday, April 23, 2019, in documents posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (AP Photos)
DETROIT — U.S. auto safety regulators have expanded an investigation into malfunctioning air bag controls to include 12.3 million vehicles because the bags may not inflate in a crash. The problem could be responsible for as many as eight deaths.
Vehicles made by Toyota, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, Mitsubishi and Fiat Chrysler from the 2010 through 2019 model years are included in the probe, which was revealed Tuesday in documents posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It involves air bag control units made by ZF-TRW that were installed in the vehicles.
The control units can fail in a crash, possibly because of unwanted electrical signals produced by the crash itself that can disable an air bag control circuit housed in the passenger compartment, according to NHTSA documents. The electrical signals can damage the control circuit, the documents say.
ZF, a German auto parts maker which acquired TRW Automotive in 2015, said in a statement that it’s committed to safety and is cooperating with NHTSA and automakers in the investigation.
On April 19, NHTSA upgraded the probe from a preliminary evaluation to an engineering analysis, which is a step closer toward seeking recalls. So far, only Hyundai and Kia and Fiat Chrysler have issued recalls in the case. Four deaths that may have been caused by the problem were reported in Hyundai-Kia vehicles and three in Fiat Chrysler automobiles. NHTSA opened an investigation in March of 2017 involving the TRW parts in Hyundais and Kias.
The upgrade came after investigators found two recent serious crashes involving 2018 and 2019 Toyota Corollas in which the air bags did not inflate. One person was killed.
In the documents, NHTSA said that it didn’t find any other cases of electrical interference in Hyundai, Kia or Fiat Chrysler vehicles that used the ZF-TRW system but were not recalled. Also, the agency has not identified any other cases of electrical interference in other Toyotas including Corollas, since the company started using the ZF-TRW parts in the 2011 model year. In addition, no electrical interference cases have been identified in Honda or Mitsubishi vehicles with the same parts, the agency said.
Investigators will evaluate how susceptible the air bag control units are to electrical signals as well as other factors that could stop air bags from inflating.
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Collins Aerospace System Reduces CH-47 Cargo to Personnel Carrier Conversion Time
By Frank Wolfe | May 14, 2019
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Heavylift, Utility
A CH-47F Block I Chinook helicopter with 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade maneuvers to pick up an M119A3 howitzer during sling load operations on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army
Converting a Boeing CH-47 from a cargo transport with the Helicopter Internal Cargo Handling System (HICHS) to a passenger helicopter used to take up to six hours, but the Collins Aerospace Cargo On/Off Loading System (COOLS) installed by the U.S. Army in the helicopter over the last three years has brought that time down to less than an hour.
The old transition from cargo to transport or vice versa was "really cumbersome," said Cheryl Gorman, the vice president of mechanical systems at Collins Aerospace.
The Army completed integrated testing of the CH-47F COOLS in December 2012 when aircrews flew four end-to-end internal cargo missions during which they loaded and unloaded 20 cargo pallets, and on two missions reconfigured the COOLS in flight--a task not permitted by HICHS.
"Whether in-flight or on the ground, COOLS gives Chinook operators the ability to convert from a flat floor for troop transport to a cargo floor with rollers in less than 15 minutes," Collins Aerospace said. "As a result, COOLS provides operators with the ability to quickly respond to mission changes without returning to base for conversion while also allowing them to load and unload troops and cargo in an efficient manner."
COOLS is standard on the CH-47F and is available as an upgrade on the CH-47D. The company also builds the Ballistic Protection System (BPS) for the aircraft.
Last fall, Collins Aerospace debuted the Lightweight Ballistic Protection System (LBPS) for COOLS. Depending on the level of protection selected, the lightweight system "can provide operators with up to 20 percent weight savings, helping to increase fuel efficiency or allow operators to add weight elsewhere on the platform," Collins Aerospace said. "In addition, the LBPS is completely qualified and interchangeable with the CH-47F’s existing COOLS under floor Ballistic Protection System."
Gorman said that LBPS offers "significant weight savings without sacrificing performance.”
Army CH-47 crews at last month's Army Aviation Association of America's annual conference in Nashville spoke highly of the flexibility afforded by COOLS and of the aircraft protection offered by the Ballistic Protection System.
Those crew members also said they would like their aircraft to receive increased lift from the CH-47F Block II upgrades, but that program's fate remains uncertain. Boeing executives have been in discussions on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon to sustain the CH-47F Block II upgrade program.
The crew members said that the increased lift slated for the Block II aircraft would help compensate for about 4,000 pounds of weight added to the CH-47F Block I model aircraft due to required Mission Equipment Packages, including COOLS and BPS.
"The CH-47F Block I aircraft has increased in weight by almost 4,000 lbs since it was initially fielded in 2007," said Army Col. Greg Fortier, the cargo helicopters project manager for the Army Program Executive Office for Aviation. "The weight increase is due to a number of required modifications that enhance aircraft capability and survivability in support of worldwide missions against an evolving threat. The single largest component of the increased weight is ballistic protection for the aircraft, a portion of which is underfloor armor associated with COOLS. There are many other smaller modifications and mission equipment packages that comprise the total weight increase."
Gorman said that "Collins [Aerospace] is squarely focused on helping the Army reduce weight on the CH-47."
“We designed COOLS to be lighter than the legacy system it replaced," she said. "Our recently introduced LBPS provides additional weight savings and we are in active discussions with the Army on how to continue to reduce the system’s weight.”
The Army's fiscal 2020 budget proposal funds the purchase of nine Special Operations Command MH-47G Chinooks and the service plans to buy only that Block II variant, not the CH-47F Block II, in the out years. The service had scheduled CH-47F, Block II production to begin in fiscal 2021.
The Army had planned to upgrade 542 Chinooks to Block II configuration — its entire fleet, including 473 planned CH-47F and 69 MH-47G Special Operations variants.
Boeing has said that CH-47F Block IIs are able to lift Army heavy equipment that no other Army aircraft is able to carry, including the new Oshkosh Defense® armored Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) and the BAE Systems M777 Extended-Range howitzer.
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Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo (2010)
It was way too long, and the mystery was not as fun as before.
Cancelled U true
The Duchess (2008)
I am a period buff, especially if its European monarchy. The Duchess tells the life story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and her marriage to the duke, her kids, her affair, her fashion statement, etc. I enjoy the entire movie, especially Keira Knightley's performance as The Duchess but it seems that's the best thing about the movie. Her life story is interesting but not too memorable compares to Elizabeth or Marie Antoinette for instance. Though watching this movie makes me realize that affair, sex and power greed has always been there way before presidential government exist, which comes to a conclusion that humanity has been way fucked up even before we were born lol! 7/10.
Scream series is more of a comedy slasher than a horror for me, so when Scream 4 turns out to be humorous, I accept it with open arms. The opening scene was epic in my opinion, it define the trademark of Craven and Williamson. I enjoyed the entire movie, some scenes were draggy and some actors are miss match here (Emma Roberts!), but at the end I'm glad they made the movie and can't wait for the next installment if they have any. The trio stars are back, but only Courteney Cox acts the best. From the young generation, I like Hayden Panettiere (I dig the boy'ish hair cut) and Erik Knudsen. Other actors were wasted and just for fun purposes. 8/10.
The Ward (2010)
Being the first movie of maestro horror, John Carpenter after almost a decade, one will raise their expectation bar very high! Same case here, I went in to the press screening and came out satisfied. Was it that good? to avoid spoiler I will just mention that's it's nothing different, but The Ward does levitate horror/slasher genre by a bar here. Loved Amber Heard, a sexy and talented actress. Other girls did good too, as one would expected. Give it a go. 6/10.
After hiatus of good movies in Jakarta's theaters, at last there is something worth enough to watch (Source Code)! This thrilling, science fiction parallel universe action movie is a bit draggy but overall satisfying. I won't say it's the best movie or even worth the praise of a good science fiction movie (same case like last year's Surrogate), but its good to go film. Jake Gyllenhaal has definitely become easy in my eyes (not a fan still), and Michelle Monaghan is definitely annoying. Vera Fermiga take the trophy here, nothing stellar but memorable. I like the ending, feel good ending. 7.3/10.
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Filming the Fantastic
A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography, 2nd Edition
By Mark Sawicki
Don't waste valuable time and budget fixing your footage in post! Shoot the effects you want effectively and creatively the first time. This full-color step-by step guide to visual effects cinematography empowers you to plan out and execute visual effects shots on a budget, without falling into the common pitfall of using high-end computer graphics to "fix it in post," which can be an expensive, drawn out process. Instead, learn how to put your shots together before you start shooting-whether you're working in digital or film. Learn how to effectively photograph and create miniatures, matte paintings, green screen set ups, crowd replication, digital rear projection, and so much more to create elements that will composite together flawlessly.
The main purpose of effects is to promote the story, not just to wow an audience with amazing tricks created digitally. This book describes methods for creating seamless effects that don't call attention to themselves but enhance the scene as a whole. The technical foundations of film and digital capture are given in the introductory chapters of the book, and you are presented with real world scenarios that illustrate these basic concepts in a practical sense. Step-by-step illustrations of photographic element creation empower you to learn how to effectively pre-plan and execute your own visual effects challenges.
"This step-by-step guide shows how to create visual effects during shooting rather than using computer graphics after shooting. This second edition reflects recent innovations in technology and equipment. Introductory chapters explain technical fundamentals of film and digital image capture, and later chapters cover specific types of effects such as stop motion, blue and green screen, miniatures and computer graphics, and the Cineon digital film system. Two chapters are devoted to cost cutting measures. Color photos, color screen shots, and photos of equipment illustrate techniques and effects on almost every page of the book."--SciTech Book News
Forced Perspective; Latent Image Matte Painting; Stop Motion and Dynamation; Film and the Photochemical Process; Motion Picture Formats and the Optical Process; Digital Scanning and Recording/Digital Compositing Methods; Cinema and Shooting Elements; Blue and Green Screen Practical Examples; Motion Control vs. Tracking; Creating and Shooting Miniatures; Miniatures vs. Computer Graphics; Shooting Elements: Fire, Explosions, Snow, Bubbles, etc.; Planning for Fixes; Personalities and the Work Environment; Glossary
Mark Sawicki
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Mark Sawicki is a camera man, artist, and actor. He has had many roles in the world of film, from teaching visual effects for over 15 years at the UCLA extension, authoring video programs on the art of clay animation, and being an independent stop motion animator on several MTV videos. He won an Emmy Certificate for his contribution to the television series, Star Trek while working as a cameraman for Illusion Arts. He won a Clio for his camera work while at Celestial Mechanics Incorporated. Mark is currently a digital colorist and effects camera supervisor at Custom Film Effects. A few of his recent films include Premonition, The Black Dahlia, 40 Year Old Virgin, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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No British outlet will work in Russia if London shuts down RT - Foreign Ministry
Published time: 13 Mar, 2018 17:15 Edited time: 27 Jul, 2018 12:25
The Russian Foreign Ministry building. © Natalia Seliverstova © Sputnik
Not a single British media outlet will be working in Russia if London decides to shut down RT broadcasting in the UK, Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said.
“I can tell you right now that not a single British media outlet will be working in our country if they shut RT down,” Zakharova told Rossiya 1 channel.
MORE: @Ofcom's letter to RT says it will carry out an independent fit and proper assessment on an expedited basis. https://t.co/jAkB9Gf92k
— RT UK (@RTUKnews) March 13, 2018
Britain's media regulator Ofcom said on Tuesday that it may "consider the implications for RT’s broadcast licenses" if it is determined that there was "an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the UK” in the poisoning of double agent Sergey Skripal in Salisbury last week.
On Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May gave Moscow one day to explain the alleged use of a military-grade nerve agent, which the UK claims came from Russia to poison Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Despite providing no proof, May said it is “highly likely” that Moscow was responsible.
During her House of Commons appearance, Labour MP Chris Bryan asked May: “Can we just stop Russia Today [RT] broadcasting its propaganda in this country?” The PM responded by saying she would update the parliament on “further measures” later this week.
READ MORE: 'What about freedom of speech?' Twitter fury over MPs' calls to ban RT
The threat of banning RT led to a backlash on Twitter, with RT contributors, viewers and members of the public speaking out against the proposal, which some decried as an attack on “freedom of speech.”
As for the whole affair with Skripal’s poisoning, “it’s a massive international provocation, with the lives of people being at its center. Nobody knows what’s happened to them,” Zakharova said.
She reminded that none of the other similar cases, which involved prominent Russian figures like another double agent Alexander Litvinenko or oligarch Boris Berezovsky dying on the UK soil, ended “in any kind of truth or answers on at least some of the questions, asked by everyone – the investigation, the public or the Russian side. ”
Each time it started with “an insane media campaign,” but afterward everything was classified and court rulings followed, which “nobody saw and knows of,” the spokeswoman added.
“Nobody knows anything about the poison… including Theresa May, who has no real facts on her hands,” Zakharova said. "Everything that we are being told by the TV and the media, when they say that there’s Russian propaganda and so on – this is typical British propaganda, which is firing from almost all of its weapons now.”
According to the spokeswoman, Russia “remains in the legal field” and is ready to cooperate with the UK on resolving the Skripal issue. “If the official London opted against staging this circus show and instead acted within the framework of, perhaps, a very rigid scheme – there’s every opportunity to do it in a legal way…The relevant agencies should’ve started bilateral consultations and address the Russian side on the issues they are interested in, as well as provide all the information they have about the incident,” she said.
READ MORE: Labour MP Chris Bryant calls for RT UK to be shut down… despite appearing on it himself (VIDEO)
If the UK follows through with its threats to impose sanctions against Moscow over Skripal’s poisoning, “every relevant Russian agency will decide how to react,” Zakharova said.
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Events / Surgeries
Health Services in Mid Wales
Following many years of consultation, plans have been given the go ahead (29th January 2019) to transform hospital services for the half a million residents of Mid Wales, Shropshire, and Telford.
I’m pleased to report that a new Emergency Care Centre will be built in Shrewsbury. This is welcome news for the people of Mid Wales.
The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital will become a new Emergency Care centre and The Princess Royal Hospital in Telford will become a Planned Care centre, with a 24-hour Urgent Care centre at both hospitals.
I welcome this long-awaited decision which comes after many years of deliberation by a programme board called “Future Fit”. The Board, considered the outcome and feedback from a public consultation, impact assessments on the different options and the findings of an independent review.
At a public meeting (29th January), the Joint Committee of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) considered the Decision Making Business Case which brought together all of the work which has been carried out by the "Future Fit" programme over the last six years.
The Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin CCGs had consulted the public on two options which were designed to improve the hospital services provided at both the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital in Telford to meet the needs of communities across the areas which they serve.
NHS "Future Fit" asked the public whether they preferred for the Royal Shrewsbury to become an Emergency Care site and the Princess Royal Hospital a planned care site (the CCGs' preferred option) or vice-versa.
I believe this landmark decision is a very welcome result for Mid Wales, and will result in better care for patients, and the £312 million on offer from the UK Government will now be secured to develop the much needed reform of health services, and build a new state of the art Emergency Care Centre in Shrewsbury.
You will be aware from my previous updates that I encouraged the people of Mid Wales to engage in the public consultation and the response rate from Powys was very high.
I would also like to thank the many people who completed my own survey in relation to this consultation. I received over 600 responses from residents in Montgomeryshire. The overwhelming conclusion was that 95% of respondents preferred an emergency care centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital rather than the Princess Royal in Telford but there were also concerns that under both options, the proposed model of care would result in residents having to travel further for some of their care.
The news is positive for us in Mid Wales, as not only will we see life-saving emergency healthcare located in Shrewsbury, with the large investment that comes with it, we will also see the return of the women and children’s consultant-led inpatient service return to Shrewsbury.
The following services will be provided at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital:
24-hour Emergency Department
Critical Care Unit
Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit
Emergency surgery and medicine
Complex planned surgery
Women and children’s consultant-led inpatient services
The following services will be provided at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford:
Planned inpatient surgery
Day case surgery
Breast inpatient services
Medical wards
I think it’s also important to point out that both hospitals will continue to provide adult and children’s outpatients services and diagnostic tests as well as a 24-hour Urgent Care Centre, Day Case Renal Unit and Midwife-led unit.
However, the change does mean that some planned and elective healthcare will be delivered in Telford, so during this process, I also expressed the view in my own consultation response that, alongside the proposed reconfiguration of services in Shropshire, it is essential that some planned care is delivered locally in our local community hospitals in Llanidloes, Newtown, Welshpool and Machynlleth, to prevent the need to travel out of county to see a consultant, and now that we have this decision, I will be keen to understand how the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust will work in partnership with Powys Teaching Health Board to achieve this going forward.
I firmly believe that NHS services should be delivered as close as possible to home and I have previously called on the Welsh Government to allocate additional funding to Powys Teaching Health Board for minor injury units and develop a Community Hospital Development Fund to encourage the innovative use of community hospitals across rural Wales. I will also be looking for the Welsh Government to revisit this suggestion following the changes to healthcare across the border in Shropshire. My view is that patients should not travel significant distances for some planned care procedures when this type of elective healthcare can be delivered locally, making community hospitals more sustainable and to ensure that any additional economic, social and psychological burden of travelling further to access planned care or visiting friends and family is alleviated.
This decision is a milestone which marks the point where the Shrewsbury & Telford Hospitals Trust has begun to confront its challenges and makes the necessary reforms which will allow it to attract top class consultants and clinicians. I am hugely encouraged by the decision, which I hope will allow building works to commence on the Shrewsbury site for a new Emergency Centre by the end of next year (2020).
Finally, I would like to pay tribute to the way in which clinicians continue to get on with the job and strive for the highest possible standards of healthcare in spite of the challenges which the Trust has faced in recent times. I know that this dedication and commitment to patients will continue.
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Mission Trails ROP hosts Ground Breaking Ceremony for new CTE & Public Health Laboratory building
For the second week in a row, the Salinas Union High School District broke ground on a new construction project. This one will serve hundreds of students in the District’s ROP program.
District administration and board members joined ROP director Ivonne Glenn on Friday to break ground on the new CTE & Public Health Laboratory. The ceremony was held on the area next to the ROP campus located on East Laurel Drive.
Board trustee EvaMarie Martinez, who was one of the driving forces behind the project’s conception, was excited to break ground.
“(The new building) has been a passion of mine ever since I got here on the board in 2009. It’s been part of my platform and part of what my messaging is currently. So I’m very proud to have been a part of the team, not just myself but my colleagues as well and our administration, that we were able to come together to find the budget for this, and to be able to be on the board to actually see it happen."
Trustee Martinez said her and her colleague Trustee Phillip Tabera were inspired by a visit to another ROP site that had a similar lab building.
“We just got the vision and said we need to run with this and here we are,” she said.
Superintendent Dan Burns said the building marks a new opportunity for program growth, and it also signifies great prosperity for a great program that will serve many generations to come.
“The staff here at Mission Trails and in our vocational programs at our school sites are champions for students,” he said. “They work every day to realize the vision of embracing and inspiring students to become productive, educated members of their community.”
The Mission Trails ROP's new CTE & Public Health Laboratory is a modular classroom building that will be located at the 837 E. Laurel Drive campus. The new 6,240 sq. foot building houses two medical classroom laboratories and one firefighting science classroom, four teacher offices, and both student and staff restrooms. Site work for the project provides additional parking and hardscapes with concrete wood/seat walls and paths of travel from the new building to the existing ROP campus.
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Jon Pardi Reveals Details for New Album “Heartache Medication”
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You’ll have to wait all the way until September 27th to hear Jon Pardi’s new record Heartache Medication in its entirety. But we now have the track list, cover art, and songwriting contributors for the new record, and there’s a lot of interesting stuff to unpack.
Along with Pardi himself co-writing eight of the fourteen tracks of Heartache Medication, other notable songwriting contributors include the legendary Dean Dillon, know for his expansive work with George Strait, Jeff Hyde who is a regular contributor for Eric Church, Highwoman Natalie Hemby, Josh Thompson, and Eric Church and Miranda Lambert contributing on the same song called “Don’t Blame It On Whiskey,” which Pardi sings with Lauren Alaina. Remember a few years back, Eric Church made a crack about performers coming from the singing competition world, and Miranda snapped back. It appears now amends have been made.
Jon Pardi co-produced Heartache Medication for Capitol Nashville, with co-producer Bart Butler returning to work with Pardi, and Ryan Gore also joining to co-produce. The title track and first single from the record has already been received well (listen below), and will be released to country radio as a single on June 3rd.
“I named it ‘Heartache Medication’ because it talks about sad topics, but it makes you feel good at the same time,” Jon Pardi said in a press conference on Wednesday from his barn in Nashville. “I’m really proud of it. I’m really proud of all the session players, the songwriters that delivered great songs. I wrote half the record and Nashville stepped in and wrote the other half, and I’m very proud of that. I think everybody’s going to love it.”
Universal Music Group Nashville chairman and CEO Mike Dungan said that Jon Pardi stressed a lot over the making of the new record and how to follow up the surprising and under-reported success of his last album, 2016’s Platinum-selling California Sunrise. He ultimately delivered an album that both Pardi and Mike Dungan say is even more country than the last one. “…We have a record that is going to go on in history and be talked about for a long time,” Dungan says.
Jon Pardi has been a focal point of bringing more twang and traditional style to the mainstream for the last few years. The 33-year-old launched two #1’s and four total Top 5 songs from California Sunrise, and the album regularly appears near the top of the country albums charts even three years after its release. Pardi is one of the few performers who can find fans across the country music divide, pulling in both traditional and contemporary listeners from across the independent and mainstream realm.
Heartache Medication Track List:
1. “Old Hat” (Jeff Hyde, Matt Jenkins and Ryan Tyndell)
2. “ Heartache Medication” (Jon Pardi, Barry Dean and Natalie Hemby)
3. “Nobody Leaves A Girl Like That” (Bart Butler, Marv Green and Jimmy Yeary)
4. “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” (Brandon Kinney and Josh Thompson)
5. “Me And Jack” (Jon Pardi, Rhett Akins, Bart Butler and Luke Laird)
6. “Don’t Blame It On Whiskey (Featuring Lauren Alaina)” (Eric Church, Michael Heeney, Luke Laird and Miranda Lambert)
7. “Tied One On” (Bart Butler, Chase McGill and Jamie Paulin)
8. “Oughta Know That” (Jon Pardi, Bart Butler and Luke Laird)
9. “Tequila Little Time” (Jon Pardi, Rhett Akins and Luke Laird)
10. “Buy That Man A Beer” (Clint Daniels, Justin Lantz and John Pierce)
11. “Call Me Country” (Jon Pardi, Bart Butler and Driver Williams)
12. “Just Like Old Times” (Jon Pardi, Jeff Hyde and Michael Heeney)
13. “Love Her Like She’s Leaving” (Bart Butler, Dean Dillon and Jessie Jo Dillon)
14. “Starlight” (Jon Pardi, Bart Butler and Jeffrey Steele)
Dean Dillon, Eric Church, Heartache Medication, Jeff Hyde, Jon Pardi, Josh Thompson, Lauren Alaina, Miranda Lambert, Natalie Hemby
May 30, 2019 @ 9:00 am
Interesting to see Driver Williams’ name pop up here. He’s Eric Church’s lead guitarist, but I’ve never even seen a songwriting credit on one of his albums.
2Barefeet
May 30, 2019 @ 6:11 pm
I believe he’s has credit on Smoke a little smoke
Awesome! Been noticing Josh Thompson popping up on with some songwriting credits on some fairly good mainstream songs. Wonder what he is up too I always thought he has some potential.
Josh Thompson is a great singer and songwriter. Always loved his music and his very laid back personality. Hope one day he can get another major label deal.
I’m not judging the song, but I’m getting tired of “do or don’t blame whiskey” songs. I hope this album isn’t filled with nothing but drinking tunes.
Like 11+
6 of the 14 have drinking related titles so… I like a good drinking song but one or two on an album should be enough to get the point across.
May 30, 2019 @ 10:02 am
These cats that write these things should listen to a Corb Lund or James McMurtry album sometime and realize that there are more topics than love and booze.
Right on!! Corb is the man!
June 7, 2019 @ 11:41 am
two of my absolute favorites
OlaR
No “boots” songs & not enough alcohol songs.
Lauren Alaina…well…a “country” singer on a country label is better than a pop/dance/rock-singer.
Mike Dungan oozes wisdom…lol.
SameOld
We went from tailgates and back roads to everything whiskey and highways. Oh and look a song telling people why he’s so country. I hope Kacey is almost done writing her new album because I’m tired.
amanda Tempel
I’m pretty certain the Eric/Miranda song was written when they were on tour back together in 2010. Before the comment about tv talent shows was made.
CeeCeeBee
Maybe. Wonder though. Seems like I read somewhere they made amends. If the song has been kicking around since 2010, makes me a little nervous that no one has recorded it (including Church or Lambert).
Conrad Fisher
I don’t think that should make you nervous. “I Just Wanna Dance With You” (Prine, Cook) sat for almost 15 years before getting cut by George Strait
hoptowntiger94
“Ode to Hey Arnold” didn’t make the album?
Good for Lauren Alaina singing this single with Jon. He said some time ago he was begging Miranda to record this with him. Maybe she thought it was too close to the single with Jason.( Who knows the reason she turned it down) If Friends Eric Church and Miranda Lambert (two of my favorites) had a hand in writing this single I’m ready to hear it! Think theres more to come!
Everything Jon Pardi has ever done has been great. I’ll be getting this album the day it comes out…very excited to hear it!
Liked Jeff Hyde’s recording of “Old Hat” on his album. Can’t wait to hear Pardi’s version
If you were to judge a book by its cover, or an album by its track listing, this looks like lowest common denominator stuff.
It’s like redneck bingo in here –
-whisky
-tequila
-hats
-cowboys
we’re just a tailgate or a backroad away from a win
ThatFireGuy13
June 20, 2019 @ 1:43 pm
Id rather hear about cowboy hats than snapbacks flipped back
NCW
“Love her like she’s leaving” is going to be far and away the best track on the album. Calling it now. That just sounds like a hit.
Or it could end up like “She Ain’t In It,” which I feel was his best single so far, which did not chart well because it was (I assume) too country for mainstream country radio.
Hellbilly Mafia
Jon Pardi, Miranda Lambert, Eric Church and a bunch of people I have never heard of….they all suck.
Trigger, we got to get back to Shelton and such.
Well, if you’ve never heard of Dean Dillon, that’s on you.
If the “Shelton” you refer to is Hank3, the guy has literally done nothing in half a decade, and any time he as much utters a word in public, I cover it. I’m not sure we need to get back to Shelton, I think Shelton needs to get back to us.
Luckily though, there a lot of other great artists out there right now. If you like Hank 3, you’ll probably like Ian Noe who I just reviewed. It’s not 2012 anymore. But when Shelton decides to return, I’ll be here waiting for him.
I love Ian Noe. Been bragging on the guy for 2 years now.
And no, Shelton has sit on the sideline for the past few years because of bullshit. Utter politically correct bullshit.
I look at it like this Trigger. I have been a big supporter of yours for years. I know you have to grow the business and hold no ill towards you for building your business up. But I like my music a little rougher around the edges. And if that shit is even remotely played on the radio, I won’t touch it. It sucks. Hell, I think Chris Stapleton is a joke.
As far as Dean Dillon is concerned, I know exactly who he is. Never was a big George Straight fan…and it got worse when the started calling him King George…there is only one king and it is George by God Jones.
And to end this, the original comment wasn’t aimed towards you. Again, I understand you have to cover certain things, not only because your business is called saving country music, but you have to keep the lights on. It was more aimed toward the folks who run in and comment I love Miranda. I love Eric, they are true country music stars. They are the greatest…Miranda is a living legend…the greatest female country singer of all time. I’ve seen it said here. You’ve seen it said here. Miranda Lambert is a joke. Just plan awful. Can’t hold a candle to Sarah Shook. And that is just today. Miranda is an outlaw….bullshit. Sarah Shook might just stab you….and I mean that as a great compliment towards Sarah. She is a badass and doesn’t need to fill a video in Ho shorts with a gasoline can.
As far as Jon Pardi, I’m sorry Trigger, but I’ll pass.
No worries Hellbilly, I totally understand that Jon Pardi and some of the other artists I may talk about here are not for everyone. But I do believe that what’s going on in the mainstream is important too, and if Pardi and others are helping to keep Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt, and Thomas Rhett at bay, more power to them.
HankThrilliams
June 1, 2019 @ 1:43 pm
Pardi simply sounds like the AIDS looking singer from Florida Georgia line. I always thought “dirt on my boots” was by fgl, so pardi burned his own bridge with me and pissed on the ashes.
Atomic Zombie Redneck
June 3, 2019 @ 7:24 am
Looking forward to this one, Pardi has a great voice and style.
The few people who I have played Heartache Medication have enjoyed it. The opening of the song is straight up Country Music.
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SHL Honored with the Prestigious M. Scott Myers Award at SIOP 2018 Team Behind the Company’s Leader Edge Solution Recognized for Improving the Accuracy of Identifying and Developing Best-Fit Leaders and their Research into the Contextual Challenges that Make or Break Leaders’ Performance
ARLINGTON, Va., April 19, 2018 – Researchers and talent experts at SHL, the global leader in talent innovations, have been recognized with the coveted 2018 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
The award acknowledges SHL’s work on developing and validating its Leader Edge selection, development, and succession management solution. Leader Edge helps companies articulate and prioritize the challenges leaders will likely face in their organization, and assesses a leader’s fit to role, given those challenges.
The project team from SHL conducted a comprehensive three-year study of 9,000 leaders at 85 global companies. The research reveals that the contextual challenges specific to each leadership role – such as growing market share and leading M&A – are hugely underrated and important predictors of leaders’ success. From an initial list of 300 contextual challenges, the project team identified 27 factors that significantly predict leader performance.
Based on the research insights, the team created the Leader Edge solution, which uses SHL’s industry-leading predictive assessments and analytics to objectively measure a leader’s attributes and experiences and precisely match them to an appropriate role where they will be most successful.
“Having an awareness of contextual challenges changes the way a company approaches selection and development of leaders,” said Mark Van Buren, Ph.D., research lead at SHL. “Our research and validation studies prove that taking a context-specific approach yields predictions that are three times as accurate, on average, as those from a one-size-fits-all approach to leadership.”
In addition to Van Buren, members of the SHL team include: Sharon Arad, Jeff Johnson, Christos Malliaros, Elaine Pulakos and Allison Yost. Other contributors to the project included former SHL employees: Bill Macey, Conrad Schmidt and Mark LoVerde.
SHL’s CEO, Andy Bradshaw said: “It’s a great honor to win a prestigious SIOP award and I am hugely proud of the team whose hard work has been recognized.” Bradshaw continued: “As the leading global provider of assessments, we are committed to advancing the science of people in the workplace. With innovations like Leader Edge, we help organizations make confident data-driven decisions about talent that deliver tangible results for the business.”
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The Crows of the Bayou
by Franc
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Submitted: March 28th 2018
Genre: Gothic
Tobias Garceau returns to the colonial mansion by the Bayou, where he grew up and where his father was murdered, in the year of 1920. He takes his ailing mother there, who suffers from hallucinatory episodes. He gradually discovers the hauting truth, behind the crows and the death of his father.
"I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror."-Edgar Allan Poe
The Bayou is no ordinary swamp-for it is a wistful place, where the Southerners are quite keen to remember their childhood memories, in the south pleasantly. But this story that you will read is about the one childhood memory that I dread yet, with an immense state of wicked horripilation. The memory of the daunting death of my father haunted me too incessantly.
What I shall disclose with arrant trepidation is a tale that will unravel the perturbable mystery that binds me still, within the indelible clammy Bayou. It had been over twenty years ago, since I last visited the venerable mansion I once was attached to, as a young adolescent. Ever since Father was killed mysteriously, my memories have been forever tainted, with the abhorrent day of the murder. Verily, as Tobias Garceau I do not know how to describe the terror that I relived, in returning to the colonial mansion, but returned I did in the year of 1920.
Mother who had been interned within the psychiatric ward of Trudeau Home for hallucinations had been released, after being diagnosed. She was now in her late seventies, and suffering as well, from the advanced stage of the illness of dementia. I was her only adorable child and a social recluse. I never married, nor had a child-for I was an eccentric man, studious bibliognost, and daring writer of horror stories. I was well provided for, and Mother knew how to pamper me with gifts; even though there were many times, when I perceived her callous attitude toward me. She was quite stringent in discipline and punished me for my mischief and audacity; always preaching about the Lord and his punishment for our iniquities. Sweet Jesus was the only salvation to the heavenly world as she called it, but not even sweet Jesus could have saved my father, from her madness-or so I was led to believe.
The day was Monday, the beginning of the week, when I returned to my childhood house by the Bayou. Mother was brought to the house afterward, by a driver from the hospital. The Antebellum Mansion had belonged to the Garceau family, since 1820. The mansion endured the hardship of the Confederacy and the Civil War. The remnants of the old plantation of the property could be vaguely seen from afar. The large cypress and hickory trees by the garden still stood tall and imposing, over the paludose edge. The tawny leaves of autumn abundant as ever, while the eerie breeze of the grove was placidly felt.
The steward Mr. Thompson was in charge of the care of the mansion, and he had been paid handsomely, during our absence. The house had been closed and untidy for several decades, but the obvious decadence of the stately mansion was replaced by the restoration I had invested, since I was informed of Mother's released from the hospital. Despite the macabre event that took place in that antiquated mansion it was our charming home, and above all it was Mother's home.
I was reassured by her psychiatrist that the ill-fated nature of that day she had forgotten; although I was somewhat reluctant to accept that affirmation wholeheartedly. Mother had been treated well at the facility, and every time I had visited her, she appeared to be less restive and apprehensive. This illness was relatively a new phenomenon for me, since there was not much known about hallucinations or dementia. I was glad to know we would be living together in our familiar house, and I hoped that the house would not cause her to remember that terrible day of Father's death. Whatever reservation I had about coming back to the house was negated, by the fact that Mother would struggle in the city.
Therefore in the end, I brought her back to the memorable circumference of where we Garceaus were born and bred each, by the Bayou of Louisiana. What most city folk deem too tedious in nature, we faithful Acadians embrace with a boundless imagination. The Acadian culture is what reminds us of our French ancestors, who once proudly governed the state of Louisiana centuries ago. There are some who call us Cajuns, and that I do not dispute, although Mother said we were more Acadians.
If I was to describe the beauty of the estate and mansion finalized, then I would enhance my words, with poetic grandeur that would imbibe me in camphors of purified wine. The garden was vast of verdant moss, vines, azaleas, camellias, irises and magnolias. The old plantation field of sugar was covered then, by willows and lilies. The animated Bayou was full of bustling sounds of Mother Nature, but my illusory enjoyment was the momentary glimpse of the luminous fireflies, who I seldom espied during the night of starry skies. The mansion was broad and colossal, like the lofty temples of the Greek Gods of Athens. Inside the affluent mansion had decorative rooms and halls, with such narrow corridors typical of European architecture and glamour. This winsome appearance had once pleased Mother, and she was always fond of the revelry and gaiety expressed, at the festive balls of her youth, when Grandfather Elijah Garceau lived, and was the supreme master of the plantation.
For a week Mother was demure in her mien, and mainly spent her leisure time at the estate walking, amid the lovely garden and cypress trees. Naturally, I was extremely grateful to see her so joyous and natural, within her ambience. It was so common to have a bidden visitor, in those unforgettable days of the past. I knew that the Garceau Estate would be the only place I could take Mother. My great hope was that she would not then remember much that terrible day Father was found dead. This was a very profound contemplation of mine, and I took the necessary preparation.
The steward Mr. Thompson had fallen ill somehow, and I was forced to hire another caretaker afterward. The perficient stranger that I had hired was referred by Mr. Thompson. His name was Mr. Guillory, and he was from Baton Rouge originally. His credentials were also outstanding, and I entrusted the good word of Mr. Thompson.
The Plaçage was the reason of such a miscellany of races seen, throughout Louisiana. It was an extralegal system where European descendants had common-law marriages, with Negroes and Mestizos. The Spaniards had once invited the exiled Acadians into Louisiana, and the sole reason I mention this is due to the indisputable fact that our noble lineage was a product of that antiquated system. I do not acknowledge this through shame of any degree-for my succinct admission is a token gesture of my irrefragable veracity that has since estranged me, from my kindred up north. If there was one grand thing that personified Louisiana it was Mardi Gras. However, I enjoyed more the fais do-do-of the Cajuns, with their fiddles and banjos. Often as a child I feasted on duck, rabbit, okra, mirlitons, gumbo, court bouillon, cracklins, boudin all of which was Cajun cuisine. There was no other place, like the unique mélange of Louisiana culture to compare.
A month passed, and Mother was evolving well. She had her days, when she was not much talkative and gay, but that was to be expected, according to what the psychiatrist explained. The maid Mrs. Guillory a very kind and hardworking Negro woman had kept Mother busy, during the day. She was also the wife of Mr. Guillory.
The woven streams of the Bayou had interspersed onto the flowing rivers, above the cloven branches of the hardwood trees with its smooth unflecked bark and edible nuts, beyond the genuine cleft before the dusk. The colorful foliage and the yew, along the edge of the estate had sheltered the long warm days of summer. Winter was as idyllic, as the shades of green were tinctured in a mild whitish hue.
One day, I found Mother sitting within the porch tacent, and she appeared to be rather aloof in her stare, as if something or someone had been occupying her attention considerably. When I asked her, what was troubling her, she was extremely vague and discreet in her behavior. This began to concern me, since it was the very first time I had detected this subdued quietude in her. The viridescence of the leaves strewn no longer entertained her, and soon she was drifting into a world of her fanciful imagination. When I looked ahead, I saw nothing out of the ordinary, but for some apparent reason, she was mesmerized, by some unseen captivation of the Bayou. I had spoken to Mrs. Guillory and Mr. Guillory, about this matter, and neither had a reasonable response. Therefore, I decided to accept this occurrence, as nothing of a grievous consequence.
That next morning Mother had resumed her more familiar self, but I was left wondering, if these alterations in moods were attributed to a sudden pattern of alterity in her environs-or was I overreacting in my presupposition? I recalled once studying the matter, and the words of her psychiatrist that it was normal for Mother to have certain changes in her moods, as long as they were not constant and were absolute manifestations in her daily evolution. The natural scenery of the picturesque garden of the estate soon brought serenity in her restless eyes. The pleasant sounds of music had always made Mother smile and less pensive.
She had a fond attachment to a priceless phonograph that Father once gave her as a birthday gift. I often played the notes of the piano for her, as we gathered within the hall in the evenings. Mrs. Guillory would sometimes entertain us, with sensational renditions of old hymns of the Gospel. Mother was a devout Catholic, and Sweet Jesus and the Virgin Mary were heard typically in her euphemisms, with her mellifluous southern drawl. Thus, our days at the mansion were spent among ourselves. Whenever I had time, I would continue with my novels. Autumn would become winter, and spring would become summer. Soon as the seasons passed, so would a year pass, and Mother was the same-no worse than when she arrived at the mansion.
Upon the following month, I was forced to travel to New Orleans to speak to my publisher, concerning the status of my unfinished novel. New Orleans was a broad reflection of the homogeneity of the history of the city. Its diverse citizens were representative of the ancestral composition of their progenitors. My time was brief, and only a day and Mr. Bushnell my publisher had invited me to a party that night. I did not see any harm-nor did I have any need to object. I knew Mother was being kept well, by Mrs. Guillory. The elites of the publishing world in Louisiana would be present. The possibility of reuniting, with old colleagues and meeting new people was exciting. If I wanted to extend my audience, I would have to attend. Fame and recognition were at times, as transient as the gust of the wind that blew. I spent my time in the party sharing intellectual discourses, with prominent poets and novelists.
That night as I left the festivity and went to my hotel. I had a strong presentiment that something bad had transpired at the mansion. However, I set aside the nervous feeling, and thought about the wondrous exchanges I shared that night.
When I awoke the next morning, I returned to the estate and had discovered that Mother had an epileptic attack. She had not had one, since she returned, and naturally I was concerned. I spoke to Mrs. Guillory, who explained to me the dreadful incident. It appeared that Mother had been outside in the porch, when she began to babble about having seen my father in front of the marsh. Was it the spectral image of his ghost that had appeared? There had to be a logical explanation for this occurrence, but the only tangible was that she had mistaken his image, for something else. The brisk confluence of the Bayou was extensive.
Mrs. Guillory had said that all Mother uttered was "Sweet Jesus its, my darling Isaiah."
The strange image of my father she had sworn to have seen was truly disconcerting, but I was more troubled, by the rapid signs of hysteria that had been demonstrated by her. That night I had instructed Mrs. Guillory, with the solicitude of Mother. I had dreaded to fathom another epileptic attack occurring that could leave her incapacitated indefinitely. I did not leave the area for travel, since I was guilty of having not been there, when she had that unfortunate episode. I kept strict vigilance of her and made certain that Mrs. Guillory was always near Mother for needed supervision. But her comportment began to unsettle me. These strange consequences of her behavior and reoccurring visions of Father were then frequent and palpable in her imagination. They were not merely confined to her physicality, but to her mental capacity also. It was her mental capacity that mostly worried me. This sudden change was not what I had desired. However, it was imposed on me, by the circumstance that unfolded. I simply had to take control of the evolving situation, since it was indicative that Mother had started losing her coherent volition.
Thereafter, I had joined Mother in the porch, as well as the servants. When the night befell, the most horrifying experience at the mansion had transpired so audaciously. I was in my room resting when I was awakened, by a horrible scream that resonated throughout the mansion. Mr. Guillory had knocked on the door of my room calling me, when I rose to my feet to see what urgency had compelled him to knock on my door so late in the night. After I opened the door, Mr. Guillory had immediately informed me that Mother was having another convulsion. Once I arrived at Mother's room, she was on the floor suffering another epileptic episode. I was aghast about what I saw before me. Mrs. Guillory had been holding her arms, while Mother was moving uncontrollably. I assisted, and Mother was stable and steady, as she was before the attack. She was given medication at once to stop the convulsion.
Early in the morning, I called her doctor and her psychiatrist, and related what had happened with Mother the night before. Both the doctor and the psychiatrist conferred that it was imperative that I monitored her day to day status. I was not totally prepared for what had transpired abruptly, but I knew that I could not abandon Mother in her hour of need to a solitary and somber gloom. When I spoke to Mrs. Guillory, about what had caused Mother's commotion prior to the attack she made a rather disturbing disclosure. According to Mrs. Guillory, Mother had seen the phantom of Father again. What was I to do or respond to that harsh verisimilitude? I had to then rationalize apperceptively, and think logically. Mother had granted her appanage to me since a child, and the issue was more needed supervision was warranted afterward.
The following days, her condition had worsened into a frantic hysteria. What was once a dormant esprit in her had then transformed into an unhinged distress and paranoia. The option of Mother returning to the asylum was contemplative, but I could not indulge in the thought of sending her again there. It would be too devastating for me, and for her vital progression. This daunting encumbrance had begun to preclude my options. Mother was never the same, and the instability of her variable condition began in earnest to afflict her.
She would say to me boldly "Toby, do you not see your father there. Boy, he is alive, and he has come from yonder blue."
Mother ever so affectionate of my name would always address me as Toby, instead of Tobias my real name. There was this parlous world of distinction that she was drifting irrevocably within gradually that was becoming irreversible. This was of extreme relevance, and required more than average patience. It would require my absolute attention and careful adherence then. I had perceived that she was obtaining in the following days a heightened acute awareness that seemed exaggerated. Despite at times her serene posture and position of generality, she was impassioned in her obsession of seeing the image of my beloved father.
This was a conflictive pattern of behavior that was germane to the prudent observation of her health. Thenceforth, I hired a nurse to administer her medication and accompany her-so that when these episodes of epilepsy occurred during the day, there was a professional always present. I could not afford to be careless in my errant perception. I attempted through actual distraction to dissuade her thoughts of Father, but she was adamant on mentioning him, whenever she claimed to see him.
Mrs. Guillory had experienced the same situation as I had, and I did my best to make her forget, by taking her to the parlor to hear music of the piano I would play, or put on the phonograph. For some particular reason she was very drawn, by the harmonious sounds of the phonograph, and perhaps it was I thought a good idea. However, soon she began to mumble to me that she heard the voice of Father speaking to her so clearly, and this would spook me.
"Toby, can't you hear boy, your father talking? He speaks to me, through that darn phonograph. He is here, and he is coming for me boy. I tell you, he is coming for me!"
These aberrant manifestations of hysteria were distressing and irrepressible. They had begun to surpass the threshold I feared of no return. Mother had completed the process of regression, and there was nothing I could do, except be there for her, as the madness would ultimately absorb her to death. Sedatives were given to her, along with her medication to mollify her hysteria. At times it was necessary to restrain her afterward, even though it was the cruelest form of human discipline and chastisement applied. Nonetheless, this was the morose veracity I had to endure so unwantedly, as her only son.
Often, I would see a temporary smile in her joyous countenance, when the sun glistened, through the silk curtains of her room upstairs. I believed that it reminded her of her childhood days once plentiful in excitement and adventure. She was rather beautiful and exuded the light of her own beauty, as a young woman judging, from the portraits that were painted of her. Although they were fain to witness, these moments were few and unpredictable in nature.
I don't recall exactly the hour, when I first noticed the crows, gathered on the rooftop and branches of the hickory trees. She became nervous as they vexed with their vociferous caws and started to haunt Mother with a supernal terror that was condemnable. She abhorred the unyielding caws of the crows and swore that they were the Devil's doing.
She would say, "For God sake Toby, the crows are signaling my passage to the other world, boy."
Naturally, I was preoccupied with her ongoing schemes and visible overreaction. I do not know as well, why she was frightened terribly by the crows. The only thing I could surmise was that it must have triggered a shocking memory of the day that Father died. This I could not prove, yet it did appear to be feasible. Whatever it was, I had to unravel the unique mystery that was unfolding before me.
One night, I was slumbering in my room, when I heard queer voices speaking. The sound originated from the parlor downstairs. Thus, I descended the staircase slowly, until I reached the edge of the parlor. There I heard for the first time the voice of my deceased father speaking, through the old phonograph. The voice was incoherent and began to fragment in tone.
"Isaiah, go away-for the boy does not know!"
I was stupefied to hear those words of Mother, and see her in the parlor so late and alone unattended. I entered the parlor and immediately took her upstairs, as I calmed her anxiety the best I could. Thereafter, I spoke to Mrs. Guillory and her husband, and had revealed what had happened. I would query, if they were not cognizant of the incident with Mother. Apparently, they were not, and what was troubling was the fact that they did not seem to be worrisome, as if they too had begun to succumb to the madness of the mansion and Mother. I could not easily rebuke them, with my authoritative reproach, since it was assumed that they could not be vigilant with Mother twenty-four hours a day, and the nurse was only there periodically.
I slept little that night, and concentrated on what was burdening Mother's soul. At heart, I knew that there was something in the end more substantially that I needed straightaway to discover than Mother's bizarre tale and mental disorder. But for a brief moment, I thought of the remote possibility that there was indeed a supernatural phenomenon occurring that was exceedingly captious in nature. I was predisposed to write about terror, never did I once suppose it to be adjoined by its consternation. However, it was encompassing the mansion unequivocally.
The crows began to gather more in numbers tenfold around the house, as the days passed. The reappearance of the ghost of Father had resurfaced unsuspectedly. It all culminated one night, when the comprisable succession of events that followed, were consequential in the verification of this account I share openly. The crows had suddenly accumulated in numbers, and the sound of their caws had intensified. I could see them plainly from my room upstairs, as they congregated. Their dark plumage and piercing eyes overshadowed their gibbous tails, and their occiputs and crowns were slightly flecked, with a conglomeration of violet blue and black. The napes they bore were of a dull black, while the flecking on their heads was more transparent. They had upper backs and scapulars, with ample feathers that were violet and reflected the noble appearance of the primacy of the crows. They bore a gloss of reddish violet to their primary coverts, with the bright light of the sun.
I knew as I stood gazing at them that something evil was to occur. This I perceived, with a swift frisson that aroused my recognition of the developing situation. I had an intuitive six sense that was indicating this menacing disquietude in me. For some unknown cognition existential with me in that exact moment, I walked down the staircase, as the crows had begun to flock in masses of procacity, around the house. Quickly I ran to Mother's room, where I discovered, she was not in her bed. Then, I heard the sound of the phonograph coming directly, from the parlor.
Consequently, I ran down the staircase until I reached the parlor, and lo behold there was no sign of Mother. Thus, I heard the voices of Mr. and Mrs. Guillory speaking in Creole to each other. I did not hear Mother's voice at all, among them. When I saw them immediately, I had inquired about the whereabouts of Mother, and they smiled with a nefarious gratification seen upon their faces. Naturally, I did not understand what was occurring, and I screamed at them, to tell me where Mother had gone.
They said an utterance at first in Creole, "Li pa la, mai li va jamé bandonné twa Tobias. Ton per, li vivant. Li pa mort!" (She is gone, but she has never abandoned you, Tobias. Your father is alive. He is not dead.)
Then Mrs. Guillory said in English, "The Day of Reckoning has arrived child."
Suddenly, the crows began to enter the house through the windows they shattered. Then, Mr. and Mrs. Guillory began to fade away, into the emerging mist of the night.
Afterward, I saw standing there behind me plainly, the cadaverous guise of a young boy, who was drenched in the verdure of the teeming moss of the Bayou. His eyes were fashioned in an obsidian color of impelling dread, as the boy walked toward me, before he screeched out loud. I found myself surrounded, by the Stygian lurid embodiment of sheer horror-the crows. I ran out of the house and reached the porch, where then I saw a mysterious figure amidst the sedges, cattails and the rushes, by the nearby bank of the Bayou. The stranger was no other than Father motionless like a menacing scarecrow, and his decomposed carcass was bound, by the sprawling branches that surrounded him.
I ran toward the Bayou, and when I did, I noticed that the crows surrounded the lone scarecrow, as I gazed at the indelible figure of ghastliness that was my beloved father. It was where, I saw there within the Bayou, a floating garment. The garment had belonged to Mother, and it was a piece of Mother's silk turquoise dress she wore. This dress was her favorite, but little did she know that it would be her death dress. There was still another shocking revelation.
As I grabbed the garment, there was a floating dead cadaver that came up the surface. It was the exact young boy, who I had seen in the house before so minatory. He was floating on his stomach, when I had spotted him. I used a heavy branch to steer him my way, and once I was able to achieve that I turned him around and saw through the intervals of the dense fog the hideous cadaver in the most atrocious form of decomposition. The body had been at the bottom of the Bayou for decades, and the one thing that horrified me was the revolting maggots that had come out of the eyes of the corpse. It was hitherto, the grisliest image of death I had ever seen in my life.
I soon discovered that this young boy was the actual son of Mr. and Mrs. Garceau, my father and mother of whom I did not know had adopted me. He was murdered by my mother, who killed my father and left him to rot away in the swamp. She had unburied him from his grave and had his body thrown into the bayou. I had being living all this time an unworthy lie, and was not aware of that ineffable secret that Mother and Father had concealed from me, since my birth. I often wondered why I was not like them, in my mien and for that matter in my appearance much.
The servants Mr. and Mrs. Guillory I discovered as well were nothing more than the ghosts of servants, who once served my mother as a child fifty years ago honorably. This revelation I had discovered, when I was looking through the trove of Mother's trinkets and valuables afterward. There was a picture taken of them back in the year of 1880 I found.
Mother never returned and had perished in the sinister incarnation of the Bayou of Louisiana, where her lifeless body was found afterward floating in its cesspool. I had fully understood then, why as well the crows, had gathered and attacked. They had come as an imminent omen for Mother's death. I can only through supposition suspect that Mr. and Mrs. Guillory had led Mother to the Bayou, so that the crows could escort her to the eeriness of the Bayou. In the end, it was all a horrible sequence of madness that I was compelled to be an unwilling participant of its finality of death.
Subsequently, I had thought of selling the Antebellum Mansion that had belonged to the Garceau family for decades, but I remained behind, and kept the mansion as the sole proprietor of the Garceau Estate; even though, I was not the legitimate son of Isaiah Garceau and Mary Beth Garceau. The hidden secrets of the mansion and the Garceaus were never known to anyone I reckon, except the kindred, who knew the absolute power of the consanguineous black magic.
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Walz is a software, technology and outsourcing platform that enables clients in various industries to communicate with their counterparties (such as borrowers, attorneys, taxpayers, customers, etc.) according to the compliance requirements mandated by regulation. Companies across various industries such as financial services, mortgage servicing, government agencies, legal and foreclosure firms, court systems, insurance companies, healthcare and pharmaceutical firms send their critical documents usingWalz technology. It is the nation's leader inmanaging critical communications between organizations and their customers and constituents.
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WALZ's patented technology has enabled over 300 million Critical Communication transactions over the last 20 years, accounting for almost 10 percent of all USPS® Certified Mail™ transactions.
More than 2,500 companies, including 34 of the Fortune 100 utilize the services of the Walz Group to manage their documents. The company ensures that its customers receive an outstanding experience. The mission of the company lies in evolving over a period of time to higher-value added services for Critical Document Management. Walz has developed industry-leading Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) technology for Critical Communications, that ensure compliance with regulations across all 50 jurisdictions in the United States.
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Mohan Tavorath is Chief Executive Officer of the Walz Group. Mohan has spent the last twenty years in executive and management positions at Fortune 100 corporations, premier Big 4 consulting firms and innovative and entrepreneurial startups in North America and Asia. Prior to Walz, Mohan served as Director of Business Strategy and Technology Architecture atMetLife. Prior to that,Mohan spent four years with KPMG Consulting's business technology practice, where he was the Chief Technology Architect of a Fortune 10 Financial Services national account team. Mohan graduated with a Master's degree in Business Administration from Columbia University in New York and and holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Poona
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The clientele of the company stretches to 3,000 companies across U.S. including 35 of the Fortune 100, 18 of the Top 25 Mortgage Servicers and over 60 leading trustees and foreclosure attorney firms.
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Their revenue model comprises of compliance subscriptions, SaaS Fees and Transactional pricing.
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Teenage Diver Finds Tons Of Golf Balls Rotting Off California
A curious harbor seal checks out diver Mike Weber as he and his team pick up golf balls in the waters off the coast of Northern California.
/Courtesy of Alex Weber
Christopher Joyce | NPR | January 17, 2019
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A diver in California has stumbled on an unexpected source of plastic waste in the ocean: golf balls.
As the balls degrade, they can emit toxic chemicals. And there appear to be lots of them in certain places underwater — right next to coastal golf courses.
Two years ago, a 16-year old diver named Alex Weber was swimming off Pebble Beach along the Pacific near Carmel, Calif. "My dad raised me underwater," says Weber, and she means it. She's a free diver: no scuba tanks; she just holds her breath. She was diving in a small cove and looked down and saw something weird. "You couldn't see the sand," she recalls, still sounding incredulous. "It was completely white."
White with golf balls. "You looked down and you're like, 'What are you doing here?' "
There were thousands of them. "It felt like a shot to the heart," she says.
She was offended. Right then, she decided to haul them up. Thus began a Sisyphean task that went on for months: She and her father would haul hundreds of pounds of them up, and then of course more golfers would hit more into the ocean.
She took what she and her father collected back home. "I had all of these golf balls in the garage," she says. "And they stank."
Then she heard about a Stanford University scientist, Matt Savoca, who studied plastic waste in the ocean. She emailed him, and he came to look at her collection.
"Fifty thousand golf balls, just sitting in the garage," she says.
Savoca was impressed. Weber recalls that he turned to her and said, " 'You should write a paper about this,' and I was like, 'Matt, I'm 16 years old. I don't know how to write a scientific paper!' "
He said he would help, which meant diving with her. Not easy. "The oceans off California are actually quite cold, so you suit up in a pretty thick wetsuit," he says. "It's incredibly physically demanding."
They took kayaks out to ferry the golf balls back. "Once you recover many, many golf balls, you put them on the kayak," he explains. Adds Weber: "We'll have the kayaks so filled with plastic that we'll end up just having to tow the kayaks — we'll have to swim (them) to shore."
There are sharks in the water there, but Savoca says that wasn't the real threat. "When we were out there," he says, "We'd hear, 'plink, plink,' and we'd look up on the hill and there'd be golf balls flying in off the course right into the ocean where we were doing collections." Despite the aerial barrage, they kept at it, says Weber. "Whenever we had good conditions, we were able to pull out between, like, 500 to 5,000 golf balls," she says.
Over two years, they found more than 50,000 golf balls. The source: five golf courses. Two along the coastline, and three up the Carmel River — those golf balls rolled underwater down the river to the ocean.
In the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, the team notes that golf balls are coated with a thin polyurethane shell that degrades over time. They also contain zinc compounds that are toxic. Savoca points out that the surf and currents act like a rock grinder and break down the golf balls. While chemicals from 50,000 or so golf balls will have only a small effect on the ocean, Savoca says they do degrade into microplastic pieces that marine animals could eat. The team also notes that there are lots of coastal golf courses around the world, so this may go beyond California.
Alex Weber, now 18 and a published author in a scientific journal, plans to apply to university to study marine science. In the meantime, she is still collecting, and keeping up her website. She says it is too bad the golf balls sink. If they floated, people would be shocked and outraged. "If a person could see what we see underwater," she says, "it would not be acceptable."
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Waite Park revokes Asteria Hotel license for 90 days
Owners violated multiple state and city laws related to health and residency codes, city administrator says
Waite Park revokes Asteria Hotel license for 90 days Owners violated multiple state and city laws related to health and residency codes, city administrator says Check out this story on sctimes.com: https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2019/06/18/waite-park-revokes-asteria-hotel-license-90-days/1485775001/
Jenny Berg, Saint Cloud Times Published 10:36 a.m. CT June 18, 2019
Asteria Inn & Suites in Waite Park opened in 2016. (Photo: Jessie Wade, jwade@stcloudtimes.com)
WAITE PARK — Following multiple reports of health code and residency violations, Waite Park City Council on Monday approved revoking the license for Asteria Inn & Suites.
On a 4-1 vote, the council approved suspending the license for 90 days and implementing a nine-month probationary period with monthly inspections to start when the license is reinstated, according to City Administrator Shaunna Johnson.
Council member Vic Schulz, Johnson said, voted against the revocation because he thought the license suspension should be longer than 90 days.
The owner, Hem Bhakta, and his attorney spoke at the council meeting. Johnson said Bhakta said he was aware of some of the problems — such as a leaky roof — at the business at 815 First St. S and was planning to make improvements.
Calls to Bhakta for comment were not returned as of 11 a.m. Tuesday.
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The council was asked to consider the revocation due to multiple violations of state and municipal codes, serious nuisance-related calls and failure to maintain the licensed premises to all building, fire, mechanical, zoning and licensing codes, according to city documents.
Johnson said the city received a complaint from a family who sent pictures of damage caused by a leaky roof.
"It created mold and all sorts of internal issues," Johnson said.
Following an inspection, the city uncovered more violations such as allowing people to live at the property.
"A number of tenants have established it as their home," Johnson said. "It's not supposed to be a permanent residency."
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There were also a number of police calls to the property, as well as other building and health code violations discovered by inspectors.
"The inspector said the mold smelled so strong they didn't want to go in some rooms," Johnson said.
Additionally, hotel management were not storing video surveillance for the required amount of time.
All the violations will need to be addressed before the owner reapplies for a license, Johnson said. Bhakta originally filed for the license under South St. Paul-based Sarju WP LLC.
The building, previously a Motel 6, had been open in Waite Park since 1992; it was the site of a December 2014 shooting.
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A man involved in the shooting was sentenced to almost eight years in prison for engaging in sex trafficking with an individual younger than 17. Another man was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for charges related to the shooting.
Motel 6 terminated its lease with property owner Marcus Star LLC in March 2016, according to previous Times reports.
Bhakta purchased the former Motel 6 from Marcus Star LLC in May 2016 and opened Asteria Inn & Suites that August.
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Rd 17 Match Report v Sharks
Sun 5 Jul 2015, 07:15 PM
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles returned to the winners circle tonight after an impressive 28-16 win over the Cronulla Sharks at Brookvale Oval.
A crowd of 14,881 saw the home side lead from start to finish to record a vital win and move into 14th place subject to tomorrow night’s match between Wests Tigers and Parramatta.
The Sea Eagles opened the scoring in the 7th minute when full-back Brett Stewart summed up the play well with a lovely cut out pass. Captain Jamie Lyon – in his first game back from a hamstring injury, failed to convert the try for a 4-0 scoreline.
The game then became an arm wrestle and it took a peculiar event to get the next score.
Taufua attempted tap back of a Daly Cherry-Evans kick that was regathered by the winger who fell over the line to grab his second after a successful video ruling.
Lyon was successful with his conversion to give Manly a 10-0 lead after 17 minutes.
Jayden Hodges burrowed his way over but was the young hooker was unable to ground the football. The video referee then ruled that Hodges had knocked the ball on and the follow up grounding from Cherry-Evans was ruled no try.
The Sharks got their first points through Sosaia Feki who dived into the corner. Michael Gordon was unable to convert a try for a 10-4 scoreline at half-time.
The Sea Eagles came out in the second half ready to play and they got themselves a try through Steve Matai after Taufua picked up a Brett Stewart kick before showing skilful hands to pass it back inside to his centre.
Lyon added the extras and Manly led 16-4 with seven minutes gone after halftime.
Manly moved further ahead in the 54th minute thanks to a try from Cherry-Evans. Ben Barba’s error on the halfway line allowed Manly to break down the field, which gave them the building blocks for their 4th try of the game through Cherry-Evans. Lyon again made no mistake with the boot to give the Sea Eagles a 22-4 lead.
The Sharks hit back in the 71st minute through a try to prop Andrew Fifita. Gordon converted to leave the Sharks trailing 22-10.
Taufua went over in for his third try of the game after a brilliant backline move played him in. Lyon put the icing on the cake with excellent conversion from out wide to give Manly a 28-10 with five minutes to go.
There was a small consolation for the Sharks when Andrew Fifita crossed for his double with only seconds remaining. Gordon converted for the 28-16 scoreline.
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MBA Reviews by students
Henley Business School - A Triple Accredited European Business School with an International Reach
Henley Business School at the University of Reading is a leading international business school based in the UK and operating around the world. Henley offers a broad course curriculum spanning the range of business education, from undergraduate courses to doctoral degrees, leading research and executive education alongside its world-ranked Master of Business Administration Programs.
Henley Business School is truly global. With over 7000 program candidates enrolled on its various courses coming from more than 140 countries. Henley has a growing and thriving alumni network, with more than 30,000 members worldwide, that adds to the benefits of a world class education and accredited degree recognized globally.
The Henley MBA - A Top MBA at a Top Business School
The Henley MBA is recognized worldwide as one of the leading business and management qualifications and is one of an elite group of schools to hold triple-accredited status. Currently, there are over 4000 students from more than 110 countries, enrolled in the Henley MBA.
The program structure has been constantly diversified, responding to real world issues by providing a learning model that distinguishes our programme and impacts your future career. These enhancements include:
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The MBA education approach has a particularly strong focus on topics of international business, leadership development and corporate reputation. The teaching approach is hands-on and interactive, which values interaction between students. Classes are taught by international faculty at the cutting edge of their disciplines.
While most program members will share common goals and similar ambitions, we understand that each will be joining us from different parts of the world, at different points in their career and at varying life stages. Depending on your chosen route of study, you can tailor your MBA program in a way that further enhances your career in financial markets, real estate or the international recruitment industry.
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By SELF Staffers
SELF'S EPL PROJECT, DAY 2: Permission to Freak Out, Granted
The Scene: The author Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on her bathroom floor "for something like the forty-seventh consecutive night." She'd finally arrived at the place in life she'd thought she wanted--the house, the apartment, and the husband, with an eye...
The Scene: The author Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on her bathroom floor "for something like the forty-seventh consecutive night." She'd finally arrived at the place in life she'd thought she wanted--the house, the apartment, and the husband, with an eye toward kids--only to find she didn't want that life at all.The Reality: Okay, maybe we haven't cried 47 nights in a row, but who hasn't had a late-night meltdown--or hyperventilated in the office bathroom--over the life we're actually living? We're obsessed about whether we've chosen the right career, the right job, or the right relationship. We have babies, then leave them with strangers. We set aside friends, family and events for long hours at the office and agonize over whether it's worth it. After the freak out, what's next?
Ask some obvious questions. You may receive unexpected answers.
Despite the fact that she was a successful writer who often examined herself in her work, it took Liz a few years after lying on that bathroom floor, years in which she left a marriage, started and ended another romance, and got really depressed, before she could ask herself a simple--and what she called radical--question: "What do you want to do, Liz?"
Even if we aren't getting divorced and traveling to Italy, India and Indonesia, 9 million of us have bought Eat, Pray, Love because we can relate to needing a little inspiration to get unstuck.
Career counselor Barbara Babkirk of Portland, Maine, (barbarababkirk.com) works with people who are ready for change. They seek inspiration, but first they need to know how to get through the freak outs.
"When you're having a meltdown or feel stuck about what to do next, you need a doorway," says Babkirk. "Sometimes it's a way out, but ultimately--like Elizabeth Gilbert learned--it's a way in." Here are a few handy tools to help you get through:
Take three breaths in and out. Repeat. If something doesn't feel right, fear is a common response. "When people start to imagine transitions, they often conjure up worst case scenarios," says Babkirk. I'll ruin my career! I'll never get love right! Breathing can help. Research shows it calms the nervous system, increases energy, eases strain on the heart, and may even reduce stress-induced wrinkles. "Breathing helps you become aware of your needs and feelings and how to manage them," says Babkirk.
Move your body. "When you're in a stressful situation your mind can take over and make things worse," says Babkirk. That's when it's time to move. Take a few minutes to stretch or walk, she says. "If the kids are driving you crazy, dance with them. If you anticipate something stressful tomorrow, take a yoga class tonight. Movement calms the mind. It can shift your perspective."
Change your routine. Ready to shake things up a little, or a lot? Take different routes home. Watch the sunset instead of TV reruns. "When you shift the familiar, you rely on different senses," says Babkirk. "You're not on automatic pilot anymore, so you tap other resources in yourself. The results might not be evident immediately, but changing your routine starts an unfolding process that allows you to look at life in a new way."
Our Mantra: Stop, drop and roll--but not in the same old way. Stop: breathe and have courage to acknowledge what's not working. Drop: get out of your head and into your body and you'll see things in new ways. Roll: change things up and see what you notice, what new patterns start to emerge. As Babkirk says, "Once you've stopped and dropped you've already changed the status quo. Keep rolling and give yourself an opportunity to try a new way of being. That can change everything."
--Karen Olson
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Movie review: Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick team up for a deliciously twisty suburban noir in ‘A Simple Favor’
Al Alexander More Content Now
Sep 13, 2018 at 11:57 AM Sep 13, 2018 at 11:57 AM
Are the secret lives of suburban women really as exciting as seen in “Gone Girl” and “The Girl on the Train”? And in their TV counterparts, “Desperate Housewives” and “Big Little Lies”? Is murder and intrigue really as much a part of the domestic experience as toasters and Roombas? Apparently so, judging by the plethora of homicidal homemakers filling our screens. And you can add one more to the list with “A Simple Favor,” the latest in an epidemic of entertainments featuring moms breaking bad.
It springs from the women-centric mind of director Paul Feig, the guy who made Montezuma’s revenge part of the prenuptial regime in “Bridesmaids,” and frumpy female tradecraft fashionable in the hilarious “Spy.” This time, he attempts to up his game by mixing the expected laughs with the somber undertones of film noir. It doesn’t always work, but even when it doesn’t, resistance is futile. He also has the terrific presence of Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively to fall back on whenever Jessica Sharzer’s script (based on Darcey Bell’s 2017 novel) runs out of malevolent gas.
The pair is every bit as delicious as the zucchini chocolate chip cookies Kendrick’s overly perky Stephanie features on her little-viewed vlogger site intended to improve the lives of mommies like her who strive to be better people. And when Stephanie’s mousy naivety succumbs to the evil clutches of Lively’s gorgeous and worldly femme fatale, Emily, it sends an oh-so-pleasurable charge through the body. It’s not giving too much away to say these opposites (one is short, poor and brunette and the other rich, willowy and blonde) instantly attract, each smashing through their protective veneers to free their worst instincts.
You’re hooked from the start, when a playdate between their young sons leads to alcohol-fueled fun and games for two women harboring dark pasts and repressed guilt. Funny how vodka martinis can slice through the inhibitions; and it’s even funnier when these two skilled actresses perform their noirish dance with clever dialogue that’s as humorous as it is diabolic. The shame is that it only lasts through the first act, then the plot ill-advisedly splits them up, sending Emily off into the enigmatic ether as a disappeared woman. Where did she go, and why? That’s what Stephanie wants to know, and she turns to her YouTube show to ask her smattering of followers to provide her clues.
If you’re sensing a “Gone Girl” vibe in which dirty deeds and mass media blend into a zeitgeist of ugliness, you’re right on track. There’s even a dopey, womanizing husband, a la Ben Affleck’s character in “Gone Girl,” to possibly take the rap. He’s played superbly by hunky “Crazy Rich Asian’s” breakout Henry Golding, a guy so charming and hot (just wait until you taste his orgasmic smoothies!), you know it’s only a matter of time before his Sean will be bumping uglies with the long-widowed Stephanie.
Therein rests the film’s most glaring flaw; and that’s its utter lack of originality. I’m told that was also a problem with the novel, and Sharzer and Feig do little to solve it. Yes, Feig spins it in a light, comedic vein that borders on genre parody. But he also can’t resist succumbing to the clichés at which he’s poking fun. He and Sharzer even go so far as to start name-dropping the classic film’s their paying tongue-in-cheek homage, like “Gaslight” and “Diabolique.” They also load up on plot twists involving incest, twins and a loopy mother (the always excellent Jean Smart) who lives like Miss Havisham in a blighted mansion.
After a while it starts to get silly and monotonous, especially when it labors through a third act that awkwardly shifts the emphasis from comedy to standard thriller tropes culminating in — say it together — a final showdown involving wires, guns and nanny cams. It leaves you a tad frustrated, but much of what preceded it is so enjoyable it’s impossible to hold grudges. And, we’ll always have Rupert Friend to fondly remember for his devastatingly funny portrayal of Emily’s ridiculously pompous boss, Dennis Nylon, the flamboyant empty head running the high-end fashion house where Emily worked before vanishing. He’s only around for a too-small fraction of a nearly two-hour film, but leaves its longest-lasting mark.
Still, he’s a symptom of a movie that is unable to focus beyond its fixations, resulting in an experience that jumbles the mind in a way that leaves you confused and unsure. You want to believe in “A Simple Favor,” but your head won’t allow it, but your heart demands it. Ultimately, it comes down to expectations. If they’re high, you’re going to be deeply disappointed. But, if they’re low and you’re willing to trade credulity for a mindlessly joyous romp, have at it. You’ll be murderously rewarded.
Cast includes Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding.
(R for sexual content and language throughout, some graphic nude images, drug use and violence.)
Grade: B
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The Cowboys are 1-1 because their rookie quarterback played like a veteran, and was better than the guy on the other side, Kirk Cousins.
“It’s amazing y’all keep asking me the same question about him,” receiver Dez Bryant said. “Dak is an amazing player. I understand to say, ‘He’s a rookie,’ but he’s an amazing guy.”
The last win for the Dallas Cowboys was December 7, 2015 — 19-16 — against the Washington Redskins in Maryland.
The Cowboys might have indeed found the NFL version of the Ark of the Covenant, the quality rookie quarterback.
Prescott completed 22 of 30 passes for 292 yards and scored on a touchdown run. He did not throw for a touchdown, but his 9.73 yards per pass attempt demonstrates he was throwing the ball down the field rather than settling for the types of safe throws that are good enough for not much.
“He’s looking to throw and not looking to run,” Jerry said after the game.
Rookie quarterbacks who have the ability to run usually can’t sit still long enough to wait for a pass play to develop. Thus far, and it does help he has a good line in front of him, Dak has not panicked.
Trailing 23-20 with 10:35 remaining in the game, Prescott was handed a perfect chance to panic and lose the game. Rather than throw a typical rookie interception, he moved the Cowboys 80 yards in 11 plays for the game-winning score.
“He gives us a chance to execute on ball plays because the demeanor that he plays with is infectious throughout our team,” Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett said. “Guys see that and respond.”
Having already fed Bryant seven times for 102 yards, it was Prescott’s pass to Cole Beasley on third-and-11 that was the type of throw rookies don’t normally make.
In his first two NFL starts, Dak Prescott has completed 47 of 75 passes for 519 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions.
Prescott hit Beasley with a hard, perfectly thrown ball toward the sidelines that takes guts, heat and accuracy. Running back Alfred Morris scored on a 4-yard touchdown run two plays later for the game-winning score.
Rookie fourth-round draft pick quarterbacks aren’t supposed to be this good. In fact, rookie quarterbacks are not supposed to be good. This is example No. 343,3410,034 why “NFL Draft Boards” are merely a fun waste of time. The only bigger fun waste of time in sports are college recruiting rankings.
The rookie who was supposed to make the Cowboys a playoff contender was running back Zeke Elliott, not the quarterback who entered training camp No. 3 on the depth chart.
“It’s been fun,” Prescott said. “I come in and focus on the moment, focus on the day and just try to live in the moment. I have great people around me to help me do that.”
Start with Dez Bryant, his offensive line and Elliott.
Zeke made a nice second impression on Sunday with 83 yards on 21 carries with one touchdown, but he also had a pair of second-half fumbles.
You can tell he understands the game. He’s a workman so he’s a guy that comes in everyday and tries to get better and it translates; the improvements that he makes in the classroom and on the practice field during the games.
Cowboys center Travis Frederick on quarterback Dak Prescott
Of the many amazing and surprising statistics compiled by Prescott in his first two games, none is any more shocking than this: Zero. Prescott has committed zero turnovers in his first two NFL games.
Despite throwing the ball 45 times in the season opener against the New York Giants, and 30 times against the Redskins, none of them have been intercepted. He has had at least three passes that could have been picked, but so far he’s clean with a 62.7 percent completion rate.
Throw in the additional three times he’s run the ball and the fact he is not responsible for a single turnover is astounding. All that ball security does is breed confidence in himself, and in his coaches to call plays normally reserved for veterans.
If there is one thing NFL rookie quarterbacks can be counted on to do is to throw a pick, or fumble the ball. It’s going to happen but Prescott is pristine.
Zeke actually took care of the fumbles — he coughed it up twice in the second half, only because right tackle Doug Free is great at falling did the Cowboys keep one of them.
In all, the Cowboys’ win on Sunday looked similar to so many of their wins in 2014 when they were 12-4: Get the lead, run the ball, throw it to Dez, force the other team to pass, get a pick, win the game.
The one striking difference, of course, is that there was no Romo to orchestrate it all.
It’s a kid from Mississippi State who is currently saving everyone’s hide by playing far above the norm for a rookie quarterback.
“Players have their time,” defensive tackle Tyrone Crawford said. “If they are good, they’re good and he’s not going to be slowed down because of his status as a rookie.”
And as such, provided things do continue to properly evolve for Dak, Tony Romo should be on notice that he might again be the backup.
Clarence Hill and Charean Williams recap the Cowboys' victory over the Redskins.
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Axenfield Anomaly
Edgar Zamora
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Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome (ARS) was previously known as Axenfeld anomaly; the latter term was used to describe one of three subvariants of this spectrum of disease. ARS is a disease that encompasses anterior segment ocular dysgenesis in addition to systemic abnormalities such as dental, cardiac, craniofacial and abdominal wall defects. ARS commonly correlates with 6p25 distal microdeletion. However, different presentations of this syndrome may share links with other genetic loci such as 4q25 or 13q14. Several genes have associations with ARS, including FOXC1, FOXC2, and FKHL7.[1][2][3]
This spectrum of anomalies was initially described by Axenfeld and Rieger in the early 20 century, as a set of ocular abnormalities affecting mostly the anterior segment of the eye with conditions such as iris hypoplasia and polycoria, among others. Some authors still subcategorize ARS in three terms, commonly with overlapping presentations. Axenfeld anomaly is used to describe patients who present mostly with disorders associated with an anteriorly displaced and prominent Schwalbe line, a condition also known as “posterior embryotoxon.” Rieger anomaly characteristically presents with central iris defects, such as irregular pupils with stromal hypoplasia, and Rieger syndrome describes patients with Rieger anomaly in addition to systemic features.[4][5]
ARS has been associated with mutations in several chromosomes including 4, 6, 9, 13, 18, and 21, affecting genes such as Forkhead-Like 7 (FKHL7) on chromosome 6p25.[6]
FKHL7 is a gene from the forkhead/winged-helix transcription-factor family and linked to 6p25, it has been described as having a role in embryonic development and found mutated in some patients with ARS.[7] Other cases have correlations with PITX2 mutations, in chromosome 4q25.[8]
Approximately 40 to 70% of ARS cases correlate with mutations in FOXC1 and PITX2, in chromosomes 6p25 and 4q25, respectively.[8]
Forkhead-Box C1 gene (FOXC1), along with the Pituitary Homeobox 2 gene (PITX2) are two of the most studied transcription factor-encoding genes associated with ARS. Research has characterized FOXC1 mutations as frameshift, nonsense, missense, deletions, and duplications. PITX2 has associations with splice-site mutations, deletions and chromosomal translocations in patients with ARS.[8]
ARS is a rare disease with substantial clinical overlap with 6p25 deletion syndrome. Approximately 10 to 30% of patients with ARS present PITX2 mutations in 4q25 [6][9], and 40 to 70% present either FOXC1 or PITX2 gene abnormalities.[5] Heterozygous mutations in the FOXC1 gene and PITX2 cause 16% and 10% of cases respectively.[9]
ARS is believed to be caused by abnormal neural crest (NC) migration during early embryogenesis. Important ocular structures rely on adequate NC cell migration, such as ciliary body, cornea and iris stroma. Transcription factors in different genes strongly regulate these processes.[10][11]
In late gestation, the primordial endothelium that covers the cornea should undergo resorption, disruption of this process may result in posterior embryotoxon and abnormal insertion of the iris causing pupillary changes such as pseudopolycoria or ectropion uveae.[10][11]
The previously discussed abnormalities in the development of the anterior chamber may affect the development of the Schlemm’s canal impairing outflow of aqueous humor and increasing the risk of glaucoma.[10][11]
Abnormal NC migration associated with ARS often affects various extraocular tissues such as vestibuloacoustic ganglion tissue, which may cause hearing loss in some patients with ARS.[10][11]
ARS commonly correlates with ocular, dental, facial and abdominal abnormalities.[3][12] Ocular findings include anterior iris stromal hypoplasia, anterior chamber synechiae, corneal opacity, microcornea, and glaucoma. Non-ocular systemic features in patients with the syndromic form of the disease may include hypodontia, maxillary hypoplasia, and periumbilical abnormalities.[3]
Posterior embryotoxon describes the presence of a prominent and anteriorly displaced Schwalbe line, which is the anatomic line that demarcates the outer corneal endothelium. Approximately half of these patients will develop glaucoma.[13]
Extraocular abnormalities are more common in patients with mutations in PITX2, and some patients present various systemic malformations.[12][14]
Evaluation for patients with 6p25 microdeletion syndrome should be comprehensive and include a referral to an ophthalmologist, particularly for patients with posterior embryotoxon. Other studies should include neurodevelopmental evaluation, screening echocardiogram, brain imaging, and hearing and vision tests, including auditory brainstem response evaluation.[15]
Childhood glaucoma is a fairly common complication in ARS. Patients should undergo prompt evaluation and treatment to preserve vision. While primary care providers may detect the clinical symptoms and initially diagnose, these patients will require further evaluation by different specialists as they may eventually require surgical interventions or specialized care to prevent permanent disabilities or blindness.[16][17]
Treatment is individualized as the clinical presentation of patients with ARS is highly variable. Approximately half of the patients will develop glaucoma which may eventually require procedures such as trabeculectomy and trabeculotomy, these therapies have been effective in controlling intraocular pressure, as described in a retrospective analysis of 24 children diagnosed with ARS and early-onset glaucoma.[16][17]
Anterior eye segment dysgenesis may present as an isolated finding in some patients or as part of various syndromes. As previously discussed, Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome encompasses a broad spectrum of phenotypes with substantial clinical overlap. Suspicion of ARS is warranted in patients who present with posterior embryotoxon with attached iris strands, or patients with various iris changes including various degrees of stroma hypoplasia, corectopia, and polycoria. Other key clinical features for ARS are extraocular anomalies such as facial dysmorphism, dental dysplasia, maxillary hypoplasia, hearing loss, redundant periumbilical skin, and cardiac anomalies.[9]
Prognosis varies on an individual basis as patients with ARS have varied clinical presentations and different degrees of comorbidities. While some patients may only present anterior ocular chamber abnormalities, others may also have cardiac defects of varying severity which may worsen their prognosis.[8]
The spectrum of diseases associated with Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome may has associations with various complications, commonly ocular abnormalities such as posterior embryotoxon. At least 50% of these patients develop glaucoma.[8]
Patients presenting with congenital glaucoma (CG) have links to FOXC2 and PITX2 mutations. CG may lead to severe complications including blindness or partial visual loss in children.[13] Amblyopia is a relatively common complication of childhood glaucoma.[16]
Patients with mutations in FOXC1 may present hearing loss in addition to ocular and heart complications.[5]
One study described a family of three generations with three cases of ARS and heart disease; these patients presented FOXC1 mutations suggesting that this gene may be involved in cardiac development.[14]
Deterrence and Patient Education
Patients and their families may benefit from knowing the type and risk of complications associated with this spectrum of disease, including a higher risk for glaucoma.[8] In addition to ocular abnormalities, ARS carries associations with dental malformations and maxillary hypoplasia. Patients suffering these complications may benefit from referral to an orofacial specialist such as a maxillofacial surgeon.[5]
Genetic counseling and possibly testing could be offered to patients as some variants of ARS are inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion.[5]
Some authors describe different variants or subtypes of ARS, and various terms are used to describe different pathological presentations, including Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome, Axenfeld anomaly and Rieger Anomaly in addition to others. All these presentations share an overlapping phenotype, and better communication between specialists (optometrist, ophthalmologist, and ophthalmic nurse) may be achievable by encompassing all these conditions under the same terminology.[8]
[1] Seifi M,Walter MA, Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome. Clinical genetics. 2018 Jun; [PubMed PMID: 28972279]
[2] Smith RS,Zabaleta A,Kume T,Savinova OV,Kidson SH,Martin JE,Nishimura DY,Alward WL,Hogan BL,John SW, Haploinsufficiency of the transcription factors FOXC1 and FOXC2 results in aberrant ocular development. Human molecular genetics. 2000 Apr 12; [PubMed PMID: 10767326]
[3] Nishimura DY,Swiderski RE,Alward WL,Searby CC,Patil SR,Bennet SR,Kanis AB,Gastier JM,Stone EM,Sheffield VC, The forkhead transcription factor gene FKHL7 is responsible for glaucoma phenotypes which map to 6p25. Nature genetics. 1998 Jun; [PubMed PMID: 9620769]
[4] Rao A,Padhy D,Sarangi S,Das G, Unclassified Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome: A CASE SERIES and Review of Literature. Seminars in ophthalmology. 2018; [PubMed PMID: 27929720]
[5] Song W,Hu X, The rare Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome with systemic anomalies: A case report and brief review of literature. Medicine. 2017 Aug; [PubMed PMID: 28816964]
[6] Mirzayans F,Gould DB,Héon E,Billingsley GD,Cheung JC,Mears AJ,Walter MA, Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome resulting from mutation of the FKHL7 gene on chromosome 6p25. European journal of human genetics : EJHG. 2000 Jan; [PubMed PMID: 10713890]
[7] Mears AJ,Jordan T,Mirzayans F,Dubois S,Kume T,Parlee M,Ritch R,Koop B,Kuo WL,Collins C,Marshall J,Gould DB,Pearce W,Carlsson P,Enerbäck S,Morissette J,Bhattacharya S,Hogan B,Raymond V,Walter MA, Mutations of the forkhead/winged-helix gene, FKHL7, in patients with Axenfeld-Rieger anomaly. American journal of human genetics. 1998 Nov; [PubMed PMID: 9792859]
[8] Alward WL, Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome in the age of molecular genetics. American journal of ophthalmology. 2000 Jul; [PubMed PMID: 11004268]
[9] de Vos IJ,Stegmann AP,Webers CA,Stumpel CT, The 6p25 deletion syndrome: An update on a rare neurocristopathy. Ophthalmic genetics. 2017 Mar-Apr; [PubMed PMID: 27070436]
[10] Idrees F,Vaideanu D,Fraser SG,Sowden JC,Khaw PT, A review of anterior segment dysgeneses. Survey of ophthalmology. 2006 May-Jun; [PubMed PMID: 16644364]
[11] Shields MB,Buckley E,Klintworth GK,Thresher R, Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome. A spectrum of developmental disorders. Survey of ophthalmology. 1985 May-Jun; [PubMed PMID: 3892740]
[12] Strungaru MH,Dinu I,Walter MA, Genotype-phenotype correlations in Axenfeld-Rieger malformation and glaucoma patients with FOXC1 and PITX2 mutations. Investigative ophthalmology [PubMed PMID: 17197537]
[13] Medina-Trillo C,Aroca-Aguilar JD,Ferre-Fernández JJ,Alexandre-Moreno S,Morales L,Méndez-Hernández CD,García-Feijoo J,Escribano J, Role of FOXC2 and PITX2 rare variants associated with mild functional alterations as modifier factors in congenital glaucoma. PloS one. 2019; [PubMed PMID: 30657791]
[14] Du RF,Huang H,Fan LL,Li XP,Xia K,Xiang R, A Novel Mutation of FOXC1 (R127L) in an Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome Family with Glaucoma and Multiple Congenital Heart Diseases. Ophthalmic genetics. 2016; [PubMed PMID: 24914578]
[15] Lin RJ,Cherry AM,Chen KC,Lyons M,Hoyme HE,Hudgins L, Terminal deletion of 6p results in a recognizable phenotype. American journal of medical genetics. Part A. 2005 Jul 15; [PubMed PMID: 15940702]
[16] Kipp MA, Childhood glaucoma. Pediatric clinics of North America. 2003 Feb; [PubMed PMID: 12713106]
[17] Mandal AK,Pehere N, Early-onset glaucoma in Axenfeld-Rieger anomaly: long-term surgical results and visual outcome. Eye (London, England). 2016 Jul; [PubMed PMID: 27055677]
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Big Valley’s Sandra Schell is not only an avid golfer but nurtures a love for the game beyond the greens
Golfing connected Schell with her dad and has grown to mean more through the years.
Moush Sara John
A part of the Big Valley and Stettler ladies’ leagues, Sandra Schell is a regular on the local golfing circuits.
Schell also plays in the Alberta Golf Tour, which is an amateur tour for all handicaps.
Speaking about how she got into the game, Schell said that the game was a connection with her dad.
“I began golfing years ago with my dad,” Schell said. “Just before he passed away we were golfing quite a bit together, and actually won the Stettler Mixed Golf Tournament one year!”
Schell still holds on to the gift certificate they won that day, and doesn’t plan to use it.
“I began golfing competitively when my dad passed away, it was one of those moments where I either found something that would keep me going in the sport or I would have quit golfing,” Schell recalled. “This is what has brought me to the Alberta Golf Tour.”
On the circuit, Schell has met some great people who she has become friends with.
“I have my husband Scott come with me to every tournament I go to as my caddie and together we have won tournaments on the Alberta Golf Tour and had some amazing experiences on various golf courses,” Schell added. “I am so thankful for his support and have been fortunate enough to win the Alberta Golf Marg Ward Mid-Am Tournament as well as the Alberta Golf Tour Championship a couple times, for my flight, as well as being the ‘Order of Merit’ winner for the last few years.”
Schell said that towards the beginning, the game was a way to connect with her dad and spend time with him, making memories.
“But because of that spark he gave me I’ve improved my game, challenged my abilities, and have made new and lasting friendships, and most importantly I get to spend a lot of great, quality time with my husband,” she said. “As Bagger Vance (movie Legend of Bagger Vance) once said ‘Golf is not a game that can be won or lost, but merely played.’ I enjoy playing it every chance I get!”
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Asus Zenfone 3 Max with 4100 mAh Battery Launched in India
Jimmie Luthra November 11, 2016 Asus , featured , News , Smart Phones Edit
Today Asus announced a new member in their latest Zenfone 3 series, Asus Zenfone 3 Max. If you are a regular reader of this blog, then you might remember that about two months ago we took a brief look at the smartphones from Zenfone 3 series, followed by Asus Zenfone 3 ZE520KL Review, if you are new here then click on these links to check them out. Today we'll take a closer look at the newly arrived Asus Zenfone 3 Max smartphone.
Asus unveiled this new phone on November 9, 2016 in New Delhi, It comes in two variants; one with 5.5" Inch Display & the other with 5.2" Inch Display, priced at Rs.17,999 & Rs.12,999 respectively. Let's go through the specifications of Zenfone 3 Max variants, real quick.
Asus Zenfone 3 Max (ZC553KL) 5.5" Inch Display
Asus Zenfone 3 Max (ZC553KL) packs a 5.5" Inch IPS Full HD Display of resolution 1920 x 1080 pixels. It comes with 2.5D contoured glass with diamond-cut edges & beautiful metallic design. Zenfone 3 Max (ZC553KL) measures 8.3 mm in thickness & weighs 175 grams. Under the hood, it packs Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 Octa-Core 64-bit processor, coupled with 3 GB RAM, Adreno 505 GPU & 32 GB Internal storage which is expandable up to 128 GB using microSD card. Asus Zenfone 3 Max is a Dual-SIM smartphone & supports Micro+Nano sim cards. One of the slot is a hybrid slot, which can house either a Sim card or microSD card at a time. It runs Android v6.0 Marshmallow, topped with ZenUI 3.0, which is a custom Asus UI.
Asus Zenfone 3 Max sports a 16 Megapixel Rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, Laser/Phase Detection Autofocus, five element prism lens, EIS & Dual LED Flash. The camera UI contains a lot of features & modes to choose from, it contains a Super Resolution Mode which takes multiple shots & stitches them together to form a huge 64 Megapixel picture. Other modes include Low light, Super HDR, Selfie, Beautification, Time Lapse, Panorama etc. The front camera is an 8 Megapixel shooter with f/2.2 aperture, HDR, Low light & Beautification modes. The rear camera can shoot Full HD 1080p videos.
Connectivity options include Bluetooth v4.1, Wi-Fi, GPS with A-GPS support etc. It supports 4G LTE bands & comes with a Rear fingerprint sensor, which is said to unlock in 0.3 seconds. Zenfone 3 Max comes with a huge 4100 mAh battery, which compliments its name. The phone supports Reverse charging & comes with a Super Saving Mode. It is available in multiple colors; Titanium Grey, Glacier Silver & Sand Gold, and is priced at Rs.17,999 in India.
Asus Zenfone 3 Max | Pic Credit : ASUS
Asus Zenfone 3 Max (ZC520KL) comes with a 5.2" Inch IPS HD Display of resolution 1280 x 720 pixels. It also comes with 2.5D contoured glass & premium aluminium alloy design. This variant of Zenfone 3 Max (ZC520KL) measures 8.55 mm in thickness & weighs 148 grams. It is powered by MediaTek MT6737T Quad-Core 64-bit processor along with 3 GB RAM, Mali T720 GPU & 32 GB Internal storage which is expandable up to 32 GB using microSD card. Asus Zenfone 3 Max (ZC520KL) is a Dual-SIM smartphone with a hybrid sim slot. It supports Micro SIM + Nano SIM or MicroSD card + Nano SIM. Running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, it comes with ZenUI 3.0 which is a custom UI by Asus.
When it comes to camera, It boasts a 13 Megapixel Rear camera with f/2.2 aperture, LED Flash, Autofocus, five element prism lens and multiple camera modes. It can shoot Full HD 1080p videos. The front camera is an 5 Megapixel shooter with f/2.2 aperture, HDR, Low light & Beautification modes. Connectivity options include Bluetooth v4.0, Wi-Fi, GPS with A-GPS support etc. It supports 4G LTE bands & comes with a Rear fingerprint sensor. Zenfone 3 Max (ZC520KL) comes with a large 4100 mAh battery, supports Reverse charging & Super Saving Mode. It is available in multiple colors; Titanium Grey, Glacier Silver & Sand Gold, and is priced at Rs.12,999 in India.
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Rydricka Rosier talks to her daughter Zynae Green, 7, on June 27, 2019, at home in Hanover, Maryland. Zynae was electrocuted a year ago when she grasped an electrified handrail outside the MGM National Harbor hotel and casino.
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A poster with signatures from Zynae Green's school is shown at her home on June 27, 2019 in Hanover, Maryland.
Zynae Green, 7, wears an oxygen and heart rate monitor on her toe at home on June 27, 2019 in Hanover, Maryland.
Rydricka Rosier and Carlos Green talk to their daughter Zynae Green at home on June 27, 2019, in Hanover, Maryland. "We make do with what we can. We're just trying to stay positive" for their children, Green says.
C.J. Green, 6, sits next to sister Zynae Green, 7, as he counts dollar bills he is collecting to take Zynae to Disneyland. The children are shown at home on June 27, 2019, in Hanover, Maryland.
C.J. Green, 6, talks to his sister Zynae Green, 7, at home on June 27, 2019, in Hanover, Maryland. Their parents say C.J. can clearly see his sister has changed without fully understanding why.
Carlos Green, 36, says he misses the sound of his daughter Zynae's voice when she would call him "about everything." Green is shown at his home on June 27, 2019, in Hanover, Maryland.
A child touched an electrified railing at a Maryland resort. The family's life has been upended.
By Keith L. Alexander and Lynh Bui / The Washington Post
Jul 8, 2019 Updated Jul 9, 2019
WASHINGTON — Carlos Green reaches into his pocket by habit to pull out his cellphone as his eyes glisten with tears.
"I just want her to talk to me, man," Green says, shaking his head at the memory of the calls to him after school, after a playdate or after shopping.
Nearby, his once-lively 7-year-daughter, Zynae Green, sits in her black wheelchair with a slight grin and widening gaze as "Frozen" - one of the films that now fills her day - pops up on the television. A throat tube helps her breathe, a stomach tube helps feed her, and she communicates in smiles, blinks and frowns.
"I cry about that right now," Green says. "She called my phone about everything. 'Dad, Dad, Dad.' That's just what I want to hear. I just want to hear my baby's voice. "
It has been a year since Zynae could talk, her voice silenced after she breezily grasped a lighted handrail on a warm June evening on a plaza at the MGM National Harbor resort. The handrail carried 120 volts, 10 times what the lighting should have, engineering investigators later concluded, citing problems in the wiring, installation and rail anchoring.
Zynae went into cardiac arrest, was resuscitated and suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Her little brother, C.J. - Carlos Jr. - also touched the railing that night as the children played. The then-5-year-old boy was knocked out but not debilitated.
He endures recurring nightmares, his parents say, and can clearly see his sister has changed without fully understanding why.
At pharmacies, while his parents are picking up Zynae's prescriptions, C.J. has spotted drawings of a brain on a medication box and carried it to a counter to ask if maybe this could help Zynae, says the children's mother, Rydricka Rosier.
"I love her," C.J. says simply as his family for the first time speaks publicly about their upended life. And like his dad, he longs for her voice.
He often wonders,his parents say, if maybe Zynae won't talk or play with him because he did something wrong, and,with a child's reasoning, he leans into her wheelchair with his worry:
"Are you mad at me?"
'Cut it. Cut the switch'
The ring of Zynae's laughter has been replaced in the house by the loud, raw sound of the machine that her parents and nurses use to regularly suction and clear her mouth to avoid choking.
Zynae spends much of her time in the living room of the home her family rented outside Baltimore to be closer to Johns Hopkins Hospital.
On a recent afternoon, she was decked out in purple, from her polished fingernails to her "Grl Pwr" T-shirt and shorts, watching animated movies that play on a near-constant loop.
"We went from Zynae smiling, running off the bus, giving hugs, talking and smiling. And now, in a wheelchair," Rosier, 34, says. "That day changed my baby's whole life."
The day was June 26, 2018.
Green, 36, had gotten off his job at the D.C. water treatment plant, where he has worked for 12 years and is now a supervisor. As he often did after work, Green stopped by the casino to play poker and wait for his family. After dark, the children liked to visit the resort complex so they could see the Ferris wheel, fountain and other outdoor sites lighted up in bright colors.
The evening was meant to be a celebration of sorts.
Days earlier, Zynae had graduated from kindergarten at Barstow Elementary in suburban Prince Frederick, Maryland, where the family lived. Zynae, who loved math and reading, cheerleading and T-ball, was preparing to take an advance placement test to determine whether she could go directly to the second grade in the fall, her mother says.
It was after 10 p.m. when Rosier arrived at the MGM complex with her mother and her and Green's children: Monya, then 16, Zynae, then 6, and C.J., then 5. The couple have been together for 19 years.
Rosier went into the casino and met Green. He gave her two $20 bills for Zynae and C. J. to shop in a nearby gift store.
But when Rosier, her mother and the children walked to the store, it was closed. So they headed around the corner to the terrace to watch the fountain overlooking the Potomac River, Rosier recalls.
She rummaged in her purse for loose change that C.J. and Zynae could toss in. That's when C.J. scampered off, grabbing a lighted handrail that led to the fountain area.
Over the next few minutes, as his mother remembers, Rosier noticed C.J.'s head resting on the rail. "Boy, lift your head up," she told him. But, she says,"he never said anything. He didn't move."
By then, Zynae had joined her brother, also clasping the handrail. Instead of laughing and chatting as the two children normally did, they were quiet. "Neither of them were saying anything," Rosier recalls.
Their older sister noticed C.J.'s eyes slightly closing and rolling back in his head, his mother recalls, before Monya yelled, "Mom, something's wrong with C. J."
Rosier pulled C. J. off the handrail and he collapsed in her arms. Monya then pulled Zynae off the rail. Zynae was struggling to breathe, her mother says.
Rosier screamed. "Help me, somebody help me. My baby, somebody help," she recalls. Two women ran over.
Rosier called Green in the casino.
"C.J. passed out. He's unconscious," Rosier screamed into the phone, both parents remember.
Green bolted from the poker table, he says, and sprinted through the casino toward the terrace, where, as he grew closer, he heard a crying child.
It was C.J.
He had regained consciousness and was standing next to Rosier as she tried to comfort him.
Then, Green says, he saw Zynae on the ground, Rosier and Monya sobbing, and security guards near them. He says he could hear Rosier pleading: "Come on, Zy, breathe. Breathe for Mommy."
The panicked call from Rosier had said it was C.J. who had been hurt. But it was Zynae, his "princess" as Green calls her, lying on her back.
"I kept saying, 'Breathe, baby. Please breathe, baby. Come on, breathe,' " Green remembers. Sitting at a dining room table, recalling that scene, his voice cracks and tears begin to roll down his face.
Green says he repeatedly yelled for security guards to perform CPR on his daughter, but added that it wasn't until two Prince George's County police officers arrived that one of them started the resuscitation.
MGM officials said in an interview that the guards followed protocol responding to the incident and determined Zynae was breathing and did not need CPR.
"I kept thinking, 'This is just temporary. God is going to pull her through. She's going to wake up,' " Green says.
A security guard who was nearby touched the railing as he tried to help Zynae and was slightly injured. Green says he, too, started to reach for it until he heard a guard yell not to touch it and another guard shouted, "Cut it. Cut the switch."
It was then, Green recalls, that he realized Zynae had received an electric shock.
According to an engineering study done for the county after the incident,a faulty installation of a device meant to control the electrical flow to the rail lighting left the handrail charged with 120 volts, 10 times the 12 volts intended for the lighting.
Prince George's records show an ambulance was dispatched just before midnight from the MGM carrying Zynae and a security guard to United Medical Center in Washington, about 3.5 miles from the MGM. The security guard who was also shocked was admitted with minor injuries.
When Green and Rosier reached the hospital,Rosier remembers screaming: "Where's my baby? Somebody tell me where's my daughter."
At one point in the hospital, the couple says, the same officer who started CPR earlier urged them to briefly take their eyes off the harrowing scene around them."He came out of nowhere and just reminded us to stop and pray," Green says.
As they waited, the couple finally heard loud applause coming from the area where Zynae had been taken, they remember, as the medical team regained her pulse. She was then flown to Children's National.
C.J. was hospitalized for a few days with relatively minor injuries.
Zynae spent about three months in the hospital, followed by a little more than four months in a rehabilitation center.
She returned home at the end of January.
The new routines
Rosier once worked three jobs that back-to-back, she says, to help make ends meet: as a school bus attendant, at a TJ Maxx, and as a custodian at the school Zynae and C. J. attended.
After Zynae was injured, the couple agreed Rosier should stay home to take care of their daughter between the shifts of health-care workers.
A registered nurse tends to Zynae from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the house. Rosier takes the duties from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. - checking and clearing Zynae's breathing and feeding tubes, changing bandages, and monitoring her blood pressure. Another nurse comes in from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Finding the right team of caregivers has not been easy, the couple says, and they went through five different nurses to find those best able to care for Zynae.
As the medical bills mounted, Green says, he took out personal loans and borrowed against his retirement plan to pay the costs and fees his insurance did not cover.
"It's difficult," he says. "We make do with what we can. We're just trying to stay positive" for the children. "It's hard."
As he talks about the struggles, Green's mood shifts and his voice intensifies, and he asserts no one from MGM has reached out to him or his family. "You know, they ain't say nothing to us. Nothing," he says.
MGM officials said they tried to contact Zynae's family. "MGM repeatedly reached out to the family from the moment the incident happened. We were told they did not want to have contact with representatives from MGM. Once they retained counsel, we were asked to only communicate through their attorney," MGM spokeswoman Debra DeShong said.
A lawsuit is working its way through court.
Green and Rosier contacted Benedict Morelli, a New York-based personal injury attorney who represented actor and comedian Tracy Morgan. In 2014, Morgan was severely injured when the limousine-bus carrying him and two others was struck by the driver of a Walmart tractor trailer on the New Jersey turnpike. A colleague of Morgan's, James McNair, who was one of the passengers, was killed. A year later, Walmart settled with Morgan for an undisclosed sum.
In November, Zynae's family sued MGM, Rosendin Electric and Whiting-Turner. Rosendin was an electrical contractor on the project, and Whiting-Turner acted as the general contractor.
"This is tragic and never should have happened. This family, no family, deserves something like this to happen," Morelli said.
In separate court filings, the three co-defendants deny negligence and liability, blaming one another or circumstances out of their control for the incident.
"Rosendin Electric has cooperated with the investigation since the beginning and continue to pray for Zynae's recovery," a company spokesperson said in a statement.
Attorneys for Whiting-Turner did not respond to requests for comment.
A trial is scheduled for February. Meanwhile, the county, with help from the FBI, is conducting its own investigation into the event.
Morelli contends MGM is delaying the case to stall a payout for Zynae's ongoing care.
MGM's DeShong denied Morelli's allegations and said discussions were "ongoing." She said MGM hopes to reach a resolution, adding that "a day does not go by that we don't think of the Green family and Zynae. We hope that she improves and her condition improves."
A reshaped future
Zynae, Green says, wanted her parents to marry so she could be the flower girl.
After so many years as a couple, Green and Rosier say they are planning to wed next year.
Green says Zynae's accident was a "wake-up call" to "begin living the way God would want."
"We have three beautiful children together. We just want to make everything right in the eyes of God," he says. And Zynae will be their flower girl.
C.J. harbors dreams, too, for his big sister, proudly showing off his bank and the $200 he has saved, he says, to help take Zynae to Disney World.
And in the living room, with the wheelchair and rounds of animated movies, Rosier holds her hopes close as she talks to her now-silent daughter.
"How are you feeling Zy? You feeling good today?" she asks Zynae.
"Blink three times for Mommy to let me know you're feeling good."
Rosier waits. Zynae blinks once. Twice. And then a third time.
"That's my baby," Rosier says.
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Let battle commence
Management of taxesPersonal tax
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Michael Avient and Heather Williams consider how the lines have been drawn with the enforcement of accelerated payment notices
The first payment deadlines for APNs and PPN have been reached and taxpayers need to decide whether they are going to pay or challenge the legislation
What does it mean for me?
The first legal challenge to APNs has resulted in HMRC being prevented from enforcing payment; however, similar treatment can be obtained only through launching a judicial review
What can I take away?
If the tax at issue is significant or the substantive case is strong, judicial review may be appropriate. However, it can be expensive to apply for a judicial review and if the eventual substantive case fails it merely delays the payment of tax
Most commentary on the practicalities of accelerated payment notices (APNs) dates to the period of a ‘phony war’, when the legislation was in force but HMRC were still marshalling their troops. These have now been deployed and this year thousands of APNs and partnership payment notices (PPNs) have been issued under the rules included in Finance Act 2014.
Why the war metaphors?
The answer is simple, from day one the course was set and the theatre determined. When announcing their proposals for the legislation HMRC acknowledged that a judicial review was likely to result. And by implementing the legislation, the government and HMRC put themselves on a collision course with taxpayers who would challenge this new law at its most fundamental legal principles.
Moreover, HMRC were aware that they would be engaged in litigation with businesses and taxpayers already battle-hardened through years of tax investigations and legal action. Moreover, they had the resources and legal teams to expertly test the new laws. The large sums of money at stake for the promoters of ‘avoidance schemes’ and their investors made a commercial decision to litigate inevitable.
APN recipients
Taxpayers who participated in any scheme registered under disclosure of tax avoidance schemes (DOTAS), where a registration number has been issued and where the tax relief has not yet been agreed by HMRC, are likely to receive an APN if the conditions in the legislation are met.
It appears HMRC are not using the discretion allowed by the legislation. Anecdotal evidence suggests that HMRC teams dealing with the substantive issues are often unaware that the pre-cursor APN letters are being issued and are not part of the decision process. It appears that HMRC officers are brought into the scenario only when it is necessary to determine the ‘tax advantage’ being disallowed.
This view is supported by the fact that cases in which the particular ‘tax advantage’ would not be considered as abusive have received APNs. Notices have been issued to taxpayers whose enquiries have progressed to the stage where only 10% of the claims are still under enquiry. These are not the ‘abusive schemes’ commonly quoted to justify the retrospective nature of the legislation.
At a recent Public Accounts Committee meeting, HMRC estimated £7.1 billion would be recovered by issuing APNs: 33,000 to individuals and 10,000 to businesses. It is clear HMRC are trying to maximise collection.
If a taxpayer’s circumstances meet the criteria for an APN/PPN to be given, they should prepare to pay the ‘tax advantage’ to HMRC or decide whether they have the mettle to mount a challenge.
What taxpayers should do
Caught in the middle of this struggle are the taxpayers who receive APNs and PPNs. Most are not well-known personalities as the media portrays, but middle England taxpayers.
In practice, however, the representations that can be made are often limited and, in most cases, are likely only to lead to a delay in payment. In many instances the only long-term remedy may be to seek judicial review.
Before considering whether such proceedings are worthwhile, the taxpayer should bear in mind the strength of their substantive case. With the predominance of the courts’ purposive approach to statutory interpretation and a number of tax arrangements failing to meet the factual requirements for the intended tax relief, the chances of a successful outcome should be carefully considered. These may have changed significantly since the taxpayers first participated in these arrangements or when HMRC’s enquiry started. If the substantive case is unlikely to be successful, judicial review may simply delay the inevitable outcome, namely the ‘denied tax’ becoming due.
However, taxpayers should bear in mind HMRC’s statements that they win 80% of tax avoidance cases. The experience of counsel instructed by HMRC is that, in accordance with the litigation strategy, cases are taken forward only where they believe HMRC are likely to succeed. On the other hand, experience shows that taxpayers often take forward cases that they have significantly less than a 50% chance of winning simply on a cost/benefit basis. This diverging approach suggests that HMRC should be winning considerably more cases.
In practice, it has been confirmed that the opportunities for ‘time to pay’ offered by the APN teams at HMRC are limited. The APN team advised that they only have authority to consider ‘time to pay’ generally up to nine months, 12 months at most. Many might consider this reasonable. However, experience shows that, in numerous instances, taxpayers have participated in a number of arrangements, spanning a number of tax years and have received multiple APNs. Therefore, APNs of £200,000, for example, are not unusual. Based on this ‘time to pay’ scale, finding £22,222 a month for HMRC may be unrealistic.
Therefore, plans need to be in place to ensure that APN payment is met (but given the 90-day payment deadline, this may be impractical to liquidate such assets in that time period). If this is not possible, taxpayers may consider judicial review preferable to bankruptcy.
Judicial review – practical considerations
The timeframes for bringing judicial review are strict. A claim must be filed promptly and no later than three months after the grounds to make the claim first arose. In respect of an APN, the determining time would be the date the notice is issued.
The procedure is well defined but, unlike substantive litigation, much work is required at the initial stages:
A pre-action protocol letter must be served on HMRC setting out the grounds for challenge.
An application must be made to the administrative court, including detailed grounds, witness statements and documents being relied on.
In the case of APNs, an application will also be made for an interim injunction preventing HMRC enforcing payment of the APNs.
The court will then consider the application and either grant or deny permission to proceed. If permission is denied, the court can be asked to reconsider the decision at an oral hearing.
The matter will then either be heard before the administrative court or the upper tax tribunal.
The judicial review process is not one to enter lightly and it should be remembered that, if the taxpayer loses, HMRC may seek costs, something they seem increasingly minded to do. For this reason, many taxpayers are either turning to the promoters or litigation funds to take forward group actions. In these instances it is important taxpayers are parties to any action to ensure they obtain the benefit of any interim relief.
Taxpayers succeed in preliminary stages
The first application for judicial review of APNs has been heard and the outcome has not been beneficial for HMRC. In what was a tactical manoeuvre, HMRC issued APNs to investors in various ingenious structures before litigation started. But, by doing so, the Revenue chose to take on possibly the largest and best resourced group of taxpayers.
It is understood that the court in closed session has granted permission for judicial review and interim relief for the ‘lead case’ and all those listed in the action. It is further understood that permission has been granted to add further parties to the action.
A bridgehead has therefore been gained for further judicial review applications and it is expected a number of other taxpayers will use this to obtain a similar outcome.
The stakes are high for both sides. The government and HMRC have taken on headfirst the constitutional dilemmas of introducing perceived retrospective legislation. Some taxpayers have to make life-changing payments now if their final tax position is yet to be determined.
At a more fundamental level, the very limits of the power of parliament, both in a constitutional and European context, are being challenged. If the government loses, the ramifications will go well beyond the tax world.
What can be guaranteed is neither side will surrender and the matter will end up in the Supreme Court.
Michael Avient
Michael Avient is a consultant with JS&Co LLP and deals with complex tax investigations and litigation. He is currently instructed on matters in the Tax Tribunal and the upper courts. He is also regularly asked to be an expert witness on issues relating to tax avoidance. He was formerly head of London tax investigations at UHY Hacker Young.
Heather Williams
Heather is acknowledged as a leading tax professional and specialises in tax investigations and complex private client advice.
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Habitat Loan
Retirement Packages
What is the Teachers Fund?
The Teachers Fund was set up in 1998 as a Solidarity and Retirement Supplement Scheme for members of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT). With a current total membership of about two hundred thousand (200,000), the Fund was valued at approximately GHC 745,194,043.08 as at December 2016 represented by investments in Treasury bills, listed equities, private placements, loans and facilities to members, real estate projects and other assets.
What are the objectives of the FUND?
The objectives of the Fund are
To provide retirement supplement to members
To provide lifestyle enhancing facilities to members in the form of loans
To facilitate access to credit purchases.
To engage in property development and real estate activities by way of investment.
Who qualifies to join the Fund?
Membership is open exclusively to Teachers who are members of GNAT. Interested teachers are, however, expected to sign up as registered members by completing membership registration forms. These forms are available at all district GNAT Secretariats.
How is the Fund managed?
The Fund is managed by a fifteen-member Board of Trustees who report to the GNAT National Council. The Board has set up the Fund Secretariat, headed by the Fund Administrator/General Manager, to implement its policies and decisions. The Fund Secretariat works through District GNAT Secretariats to serve members in the districts.
What are contributions used for?
The total amount realized as contributions from members are invested in the following:
Loans and facilities
Private equity placements
Subsidiaries(Credit Mall, TF Financial Services , TF Properties)
What benefits are members of the Fund entitled to?
Members of the Fund are entitled to
Retirement benefit (exit package)
Death/Permanent disability benefit under the Group Solidarity Scheme
Loan facilities (Personal Loan, Investment Capital Loan, Habitat Loan and Vehicle Loan)
Credit purchases of household consumer items from Credit Mall Limited on credit basis
What is the Teachers Fund Retirement Benefit/Exit Package?
The retirement benefit/exit package of a member is an amount made up of his/her total contributions and returns on same. A member may apply for this package when he/she retires from the GES after attaining the retirement age or leaves GNAT for any other teacher association or retires voluntarily.
What is the Teachers Fund Death/Permanent disability benefit? (Group Solidarity Scheme)
The Group Solidarity Scheme is an insurance package for all members which covers death and permanent disability. In the event of the death of a member, his next – of – kin is eligible for a specified sum under the scheme. Similarly, any member who is rendered permanently disabled is entitled to a package under the same scheme.
What is Teachers Fund Personal Loan?
The Personal Loan is a facility available to registered members to enable them resolve their short-term financial obligations. The facility currently has a ceiling of GHC 15,000.
What is Teachers Fund Investment Capital Loan?
The Investment Capital Loan is a facility intended to support members to purposely undertake income generating or investment activities. The facility currently has a ceiling of GHC 25,000.
What is Habitat Loan?
With a current ceiling of GHC 30,000, The Habitat Loan is designed to support members undertake housing projects.
What is Teachers Fund Vehicle Loan?
The Vehicle Loan is a lifeline to members for the acquisition of non-commercial vehicles. As part of the application process, a loan applicant is expected to submit an invoice from a vehicle vendor to whom the approved loan amount is disbursed. The facility currently has a ceiling of GHC 40,000.
For how long should one contribute to qualify for a loan from the Fund?
Any member who has contributed for a minimum of six months is eligible for a loan from the Fund.
Are the requirements for the various loan facilities the same?
No. There are variations in the application requirements for the four loan facilities the Fund gives to its members.
For Personal Loan, the following are the requirements:
Completed Personal Loan application form
Two (2) passport pictures
Two (2) signed mandate forms with different serial numbers.
Loan Advance forms
Authority Note
Copy of a Valid National ID
Most recent pay slip.
Completed Habitat Loan application form
Two (2) passport forms
Two (2)signed mandate forms with different serial numbers
Loan Advance form
Copy of Valid National ID
Most recent pay slip
Evidence of land ownership in the form of
Indenture b) Yellow Card, c) Land Title d) Building permit
Investment Capital Loan
Completed Investment Capital Loan application forms
Two (2) signed Mandate forms with different serial numbers
Most recent pays lip
Evidence of Business ownership in the form of
Business Registration forms
Business Documents e.g. Local permits.
Vehicle Finance Loan
Completed Vehicle Loan application forms
Two (2) signed Mandate Form with different serial numbers
Valuation report on Vehicle to be purchased.
How can a member know the value of his/her contributions in the Fund?
The Fund sends an Annual Statement of Accounts to each registered member. A member’s Statement of Accounts captures details of his/her yearly contributions, the Fund’s investment portfolio and the current value of the Fund’s investments. The statement also shows the current value of the investment of the members.
How are decisions on increments in basic contributions taken?
As a result of the large size of GNAT, decisions are usually made by representation. With regard to increments in Teachers Fund basic contributions, the Board of Trustees of the Fund presents the proposed increment to the GNAT National Council for consideration. The Council subsequently informs the regional and district secretaries to sensitize contributors about the proposal. The Fund also conducts a nationwide survey to ascertain the opinion of contributors about the proposal. The responses from contributors in each region are compiled and presented to GNAT National Council for consideration.
Why does the Fund charge Interest on loans?
The principal objective of the Fund is to provide a meaningful retirement supplement to members. In order to achieve this, there is the need to ensure that contributions to the Fund are properly invested for meaningful returns.
The loans constitute a key investment of the Fund. Therefore, there is the need to ensure that this investment yields significant and impressive returns. The interest realized on loans are distributed to members (including loan beneficiaries) as returns on their investments. Less than fifty percent of members access loans from the Fund. This implies that majority of members contribute purposely towards retirement. Therefore if the Fund earns nothing or insignificant returns on the loans, exit packages for members will be negatively affected.
What is the interest rate charged on loans disbursed by the Fund?
Currently, the Fund charges an interest rate of 2% monthly or 24% per annum on loans using the reducing balance method. This implies that interest is charged on the remaining principal.
What steps should a member take if he does not receive his annual statement of accounts?
A member who does not receive his statement of accounts may complete the non-receipt of statement form, obtained from a District GNAT Secretariat and forward same to the Fund Secretariat through the District Secretary for processing. Alternatively, the member may write to the Fund Secretariat describing his situation, stating his/her Fund ID and providing other relevant information.
Beside the Annual Statement, can a member use any other means to obtain some basic information on his membership or contributions?
Yes. The Fund has introduced a USSD platform which allows members to access the following:
Fund ID
Current Contribution
Total Contribution (total contribution excluding returns)
However members are required to register for access unto the USSD platform.
What is the Code for the USSD and how does it work?
The code is *718*60# on all networks. After dialling the code, one has to Press 1 to register for the service. He/she will then need to enter his/her staff ID and a six-digit Unique Passcode (which can be obtained from the District GNAT Secretariat). Upon successful registration, the member’s Fund ID will be displayed on his/her phone’s screen. The Fund ID can then be used to check Current Contribution and Total Contribution.
Members are to note that they should avoid accessing the platform with any other phone line besides the one they used for registration.
Can a member opt out of the Fund and retrieve his contributions to the Fund upon exit?
Yes. This is termed voluntary exit. He will be required to fill the exit application form, attach the required documents and submit them to the Fund Secretariat through his/her District GNAT Secretariat.
Can a member change his or her next of kin?
Yes. The member has to write to the Fund and provide details of the new next kin. Alternatively, a member may provide details of the new next of kin on the detachable counterfoil on his/her statement of accounts and forward same to the Fund Secretariat.
How many members constitute the Board of the Teachers Fund?
The Fund has a fifteen member Board comprising ten regional representatives of GNAT, three (3) External Trustees nominated and appointed by GNAT, the General Secretary of GNAT or his representative and a Chairman appointed by the GNAT National Council.
What is the function of the Teachers Fund Board?
The Board is primarily responsible for setting the Fund’s strategic direction. It is also responsible for leading, controlling and monitoring the activities of Management. The Board meets three (3) times in a year unless there is the need for any emergency decisions which will necessitate sitting more than three times in a year.
How does the Board function?
The Board has set up four (4) sub-committees, mandated them to deliberate on issues within their scope and report to the Board. These are the Executive Committee, Investment Committee, Audit Committee and Nominating Committee. These committees report to the Board.
What is TPRS?
TPRS stands for Third Party Referencing System. It is an automated system introduced by the Controller and Accountant Generals Department for the deduction of loans and other financial commitments for financial institutions.
What is Loan Refinancing?
Refinancing refers to paying off an existing loan using part of the proceeds of a newly approved loan. In other words it is a loan ‘top up’.
What is affordability?
Affordability is an assessment of the ability of a member to service the repayment amount expected for a required loan amount. It is essentially 50% of a member’s disposable income minus any existing financial commitment.
What is Credit Mall Limited (CML)?
Credit Mall Limited was set up by Teachers Fund to address the consumer credit needs of teachers. Its marketing strategy involves selling a wide range of household items and appliances to teachers through direct sales. These sales are planned in conjunction with Regional and District GNAT Secretariats. Over the past few years, the company has paid more attention to the sale of building materials to teachers with the view to helping them address their housing needs.
TF Financial Services?
TF Financial Services Limited (TFFS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Teachers Fund and was incorporated in Ghana in the year 2006. The decision to set up TF Financial Services was borne out of the Fund’s objective of diversifying some of its investments into long-term holdings. The Company operates as a financial services firm licensed by Bank of Ghana (BOG) to provide loans to the general public. Over the years the company has concentrated its core activities on the provision of loans to various market segments. Currently, the company has two loan products namely Employee Salary Loans and Controller Salary Loans.
What is TF Properties?
TF Properties Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Teachers Fund. The authorized business of the organization is to engage in real estate development and management services. Prior its establishment, the Fund’s real estate investments were held as a unique asset class in its portfolio. For strategic reasons, the Board of Trustees approved the establishment of an entity to hold and manage its real estate investments more efficiently. Since its establishment, TF Properties has supervised the construction and completion of three major commercial properties namely GNAT Heights, TF Hostel and the North Ridge Office.
The Teachers Fund is a retirement supplement and Solidarity scheme for the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) established by a Trust Deed in May 1998. The Fund started with a monthly deduction of GHC0.10 (¢1.000) as basic contributions from the salary of GNAT members through a check-off system. Read More.
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Team England kit revealed!
The kit that Team England will wear at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has today been officially unveiled in Manchester.
Lancashire based sportswear company, Kukri, the Official Kit Supplier to Team England has produced a stunning range of kit for the 600 plus athletes and staff who will represent England this summer.
Commonwealth Games England and Kukri have worked closely with athletes over the last year to develop the range. The athletes identified the England Lion as a key symbol of the team along with the attributes of Strength, Pride, Commitment and Courage and every piece of the kit will symbolise this.
Kukri will supply all of Team England’s delegation wear, competition kit and formal wear - providing a truly uniform and cohesive look for athletes and officials alike – a real first for Team England. Alongside the traditional red and white colours of the St George’s Cross flag, Kukri, at the request of athletes, has introduced a third colour – maroon - a new rich, red alternative synonymous with English heritage.
Additionally Arena has been appointed as Official Aquatics Wear Supplier and they will provide competition swimwear for both swimming and diving which will reflect a similar look and feel as the Kukri kit providing Team England with a single spirit across 17 sports. An aquatics group of athletes were involved in the development of the arena kit.
Team England Chef de Mission Jan Paterson said: “Unveiling our kit is a unique moment for Team England on our journey to Glasgow 2014 and this is a very exciting day for us.
“The kit that Kukri and Arena have produced embodies what we represent as a Team and I am very proud that the athletes have been at the heart of the design of this kit. From selection of Kukri, to the scope of what kit was in their bag to the design itself, our athletes have led the way. We may be 17 sports, but we are united as a single spirit and our Team England kit is a true representation of that.”
Commenting on the kit reveal, Kukri Founder and Group Managing Director, Phil Morris, said: “We were incredibly proud back in April 2013 when we were informed by Commonwealth Games England that we had been chosen by the athletes as the Official Kit Supplier to Team England.
Phil adds: “Kukri has a unique ability to produce clothing for 76 sports so when CGE asked us to produce kit for their 17 sports for Glasgow 2014 we were delighted to accept the challenge.
Today is a culmination of a lot of hard work by the team with a huge amount of input from athletes about what they did and didn’t want and we are very proud that Team England will take to the world stage in Glasgow looking fantastic and relevant for each of their individual sports while clearly being part of the family which is Team England.”
Replica ranges of both Kukri and Arena kit will be on sale to the general public via www.kukrisports.com, this is another first for Team England.
The kit reveal took place on The Orient’s main stage at the Intu Trafford Centre where English athletes, including Kukri athlete Ambassadors, paraded alongside professional catwalk models as the Team England kit was revealed in front of the attending VIPs and media for the very first time.
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689 Bangladeshi Students Awarded in the Edexcel High Achievers Award Ceremony
Pearson’s largest Qualification brand ‘Edexcel’, in collaboration with the British Council, has conducted their 7th Academic Award Ceremony on Friday 25th January 2019 for the students who achieved outstanding results in their International GCSE and A Level examination in 2018. The Award Ceremony was held in the ‘Hall of Fame’ of Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, Dhaka.
There were around 689 awardees this year who received Edexcel awards in four different categories. There were 572 students who received awards for obtaining 7 ‘A’ and ‘A*’ Grades in one sitting, and 8 ‘A/A*’ Grades or more in two sittings in International GCSE. 80 students received awards for obtaining 4 ‘A’/A*’ Grades in one sitting in International A Levels and, 37 students who achieved the world highest marks in individual subjects.
Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education was present in this grand award ceremony of Pearson Edexcel as the Chief Guest. Kanbar Hossein-Bor, British Deputy High Commissioner to Bangladesh;Andrew Newton, Deputy Director British Council Bangladesh; Ben Greshon, International Portfolio Manager of Pearson UK; and Harish Doraiswamy, Vice President, Pearson South Asia werealso present in the occasion as special guests along with other senior officials of Pearson and British Council.
On this occasion, Andrew Newtonsaid, “The exemplary performance of the students every year in the examination is a strong proof that these students have the potential to contribute to the continued economic progress of the country in their journey to develop a better world. Congratulations to all the high achievers this year, and I wish them all the best.”
Pearson Edexcel, one of the 3 qualifications providers which have been regulated by the UK government has been offering its International GCSE and A Level qualification in Bangladesh for last 47 years with the support of British Council Bangladesh. There have been around 16000 students were sitting for these examinations in Bangladesh every year. This had been Edexcel and British Council’s joint initiative to recognize the outstanding achievements of the selective students who obtained a minimum of 7 ‘A/A*’ Grades in International GCSE, 4 ‘A/A*’ Grades in A Levels and obtained World Highest marks in many individual subjects.
Bangladesh is one of the key countries where a large number of students attend Pearson Edexcel qualifications and many of them go abroad for higher studies every year such as Harvard, Cambridge, MIT, LSE etc. A large number of these students have also been studying in both leading public and private universities in Bangladesh.
This has been an annual event and Pearson expects that the students, parents and schools were encouraged by this initiative for greater success of the high achievers in the future.
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Microsoft will let users delay installing the Windows 10 May 2019 update
By Stephen Lambrechts 2019-04-05T01:30:15Z Operating systems
Promises more transparency with updates
While Windows 10 users were previously unable to delay major OS updates, leading to plenty of frustration due to forced restarts and unwanted changes, Microsoft has announced it's doing an about-face on the way updates will roll out in future.
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Starting with the upcoming Windows 10 May 2019 Update, users will be notified of a major update's availability, but will be able to put off its installation until the device they're using is close to no longer being supported in its current state.
Promising more transparency with its update practices, Microsoft has revealed that users will be able to pause critical updates for up to 35 days after that 'final' notification, although you will have to bite the bullet eventually.
Image credit: Microsoft
"Windows update will continue to automatically initiate a feature update; keeping machines supported and receiving monthly updates is critical to device security and ecosystem health," said Windows corporate vice president Mike Fortin in his blog post on the matter.
Along with this very welcome change, Windows 10 will also implement a new 'Intelligent active hours' feature, allowing users to either manually schedule updates or let the OS choose the time based on usage patterns.
The Windows 10 May 2019 Update will be available to members of the Windows Insider Program from next week, and will rollout to everyone else from the end of May.
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Amazon Prime Day UK
Amazon App store for Android updated
Lighting taper ahead of Kindle Fire
The Amazon App Store for Android version 2.0 has rolled out in preparation for the US launch of the Kindle Fire.
With the Amazon Kindle Fire rolling out for the US market on 15 November, Amazon knows that its app strategy is a central pillar to supporting its new venture.
Version 2.0 of the Amazon App Store brings in a subscriptions item in the main app menu, and overhauls the look and feel to make it more similar to the Kindle Fire's interface.
Obviously it will be a few days before the true impact of the changes is made clear, with the launch date likely to bring a wealth of new content for the store.
The Kindle Fire has already attracted huge interest and, positively for Amazon, enough pre-orders to prompt the internet giant to increase its production demands.
Although we are yet to hear of any Amazon Kindle Fire UK release date, there is plenty of desire for a low cost tablet, which will be thrust into a market dominated by Apple's iPad.
The low price means that Amazon will be desperate to push content from its own virtual shelves in order to make its Kindle Fire project a commercial hit.
But with early signs positive, the company must be growing in confidence that it can replicate the success that it had with its Kindle ebook reader.
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Guy Dammann
The Old Town seen from the Charles Bridge
Prague. Prague. It helps to say the name at least twice as a countermeasure to the ridiculous ease of modern travel — especially when visiting cities of one syllable. Another countermeasure is to arrive by train, where the sweep of the landscape gives a better sense of Prague as the grand Bohemian capital than as a retreat for Hapsburg aristocrats and easyJet stag parties.
There are direct trains from Munich and Budapest, and of course Vienna and Bratislava, to Prague’s Hlavní nádraží station, originally christened Wilsonovo nádraží after the US president who championed Czechoslovak independence. A new Wilson monument stands outside the station, replacing the original statue, which the Nazis melted down for its bronze. The art-nouveau station building is quite a sight, and a short walk from other ‘sights’ — the Old Town and Wenceslas Square are just a few blocks away. Avoid the taxi ranks unless you need a reminder of how easy it can be to get ripped off in Prague. That’s entirely unnecessary in a city which remains navigable on foot and is full of music and beer, both of which are excellent and affordable.
The music came first, for me. Smetana and Dvořák’s scores, so central to the emerging sensibility of the country’s nationalist revival, also provided my teenage years with much of their soundtrack. The beer came a little later, from the cramped bar of West Hampstead’s Czech club, where enormous glasses of frothy Gambrinus pilsner and smaller ones of slivovitz were all you could order, or want. There were two old posters, one of the young Václav Havel holding protest, another of a woman on a bike having her bottom spanked, both of which made me keen to travel to the country. There was also a sign reading ‘No Albanians’ on the front door, which made me less keen. I stopped going when they switched from Gambrinus to the ubiquitous Urquell, stupid because Czech pilsner — nowadays mostly brewed in Slovakia where the water’s better — tastes pretty alike. ‘Není pivo jako pivo’: there’s no beer like beer.
The saying captures an important truth about Czech people, which is that they are mindful of quality but not taken in by bullshit. Most things — apart from the worst tourist traps crowded round the Charles Bridge — have a genuine feel which derives from the deep roots of Czech culture; an innate sense of how things should be done. It’s something you can still hear in the magnificently co-ordinated string section of the Czech Philharmonic, and seems to have been among the reasons for Mozart’s strong attraction to the place, when he arrived to conduct Figaro early in 1787 (after its premature withdrawal from fashion-obsessed Vienna), and in returning for Don Giovanni and La Clemenza di Tito, both commissioned by Prague’s National Theatre.
Today’s musical scene remains lively. The Opera’s new season is just under way, with a production of Martinů’s ravishing Juliette, while the annual Prague Spring festival, founded by Rafael Kubelik in 1946 to celebrate the Philharmonic’s 50th anniversary, brings the musical great and good to the Rudolfinum hall. But much of the best of the city’s musical culture is to be found in the small concert series and one-off chamber recitals which take place in small venues and even people’s homes, advertised word-of-mouth or through postcards pinned to coffee-shop walls.
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NCCSP People's Champion
With the successful implementation of its programs at the local level, Nepal Climate Change Support Program (NCCSP) has received an international recognition
A Correspondent
June 23, 2016, 5:45 p.m. Published in Magazine Issue: Vol:09,No. 23, June 24,2016 (Ashad10,2073)
At a time when everyone has been talking about the dim picture of Nepal’s development projects, Nepal Climate Change Support Program (NCCSP) has shown that there is a way to implement the project successfully.
With the support of the local communities, NCCSP has launched several programs in the remote parts of Nepal to reduce the risk of climate change and adopt ways to deal with the changing climate.
For its successful model, the project has received several awards in the past. In the last Paris Conference, the NCCSP was recognized as one of the best programs for community based adaptation.
Nepal Climate Change Support Program (NCCSP) received People's Champion Award and three Photos received Honorable Mentions of Adaptation Fund’s 2016 Global Photo Contest held in New York.
In the Adaptation Fund’s 2016 Global Photo Contest promoting “Coastal and Watershed Adaptation to Climate Change” launched on the coinciding occasion of Earth Day and Paris Climate Agreement Signing Ceremony held on April 22, 2016 in New York, Nepal Climate Change Support Program (NCCSP) received the most appreciation by general public and is awarded with ‘People’s Champion’ for its adaptation photo titled “Power of Unity to Build a Dam”.
The winning photo portrays local communities constructing a dam for an irrigation canal in Lalpur ward no -1 of Khairichandanpur Village Development Committee within the Bardiya district of Midwestern Nepal. Nepal's photo was the most appreciated one among 127 photos submitted globally.
Similarly, out of eight juried Honorable Mentions, three photos portraying inland watersheds impacts and adaptation solution were from Nepal. These winning photos will appear in a dedicated album on the Adaptation Fund’s Flickr site and will also be displayed at the Fund’s upcoming Global Climate Finance Readiness Seminar at the World Bank in Washington DC July 13-15.
The NCCSP is being implemented by Nepal Government, Ministry of Population and Environment in 90 VDCs and 7 Municipalities of 14 districts of Far and Midwestern region of Nepal. The main objective of this program is to build adaptive capacity of most poor, vulnerable and marginalized community against negative impact of climate change. DFID Nepal, EU are providing financial support while UNDP is proving technical support to the program.
“We have been launching LAPA at local level. This award encourages us to do more work. We keep working on adaptation work for poor and vulnerable people. As Nepal is a chair of Adaptation Fund Board, I am very happy to see Nepal’s adaptation program getting international recognition,” said Naresh Sharma, head of Climate Finance Management Section and NAP coordinator.
“NCCSP also recognized earlier at the international level. It is a matter of satisfaction for us to say that these photos will be exhibited again in coming UNFCCC COP 22 in Morocco to show the successful model of local adoption program to the global audience,” said Sharma.
The project covers 14 districts of Nepal - 3 in far-west (Achham, Bajura and Kailali) and 11 in the mid-west (Bardiya, Dolpa, Humla, Jumla, Mugu, Dailekh, Jajarkot, Kalikot, Dang, Rolpa and Rukum). NCCSP aims to ensure the poorest and most vulnerable communities in Nepal adapt to the effects of climate change.
Supported by DFID, European Union and UNDP, Ministry of Population and Environment is implementing this program through the District Development Committees.
This is the first project run with the involvement of various stakeholders, Ministry of Population and Environment, Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development, regional offices, VDCs and DDCs, which are implementing LAPA.
According to Ministry of Population and Environment, 100 LAPAs developed in 14 districts of mid and far western regions of Nepal providing technical support to 550,000 women and girls, and 450,000 men and boys with reduced vulnerability due to local adaption and disaster risk reduction actions by 2015.
Over 500,000 vulnerable people, 55% women, have already received access to climate resilient adaptation technology practices.
Similarly, 190,000 women and 170,000 men with access to clean energy technologies, 500,000 people living in VDCs with effective adaptation actions improved gateways to resilience in the last five years.
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Man sentenced in fatal McDonald’s shooting last year
10 years in prison for Surrey's Daon Glasgow, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Sheila Reynolds
A Surrey drug dealer will spend another nine years in jail for shooting and killing another man at a fast food restaurant last year.
Daon Gordon Glasgow, 27, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder last April after a violent March 27, 2010 incident at the McDonald’s outlet near 100 Avenue and Scott Road that killed Terry Blake Scott.
However, he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter and was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison, less one year credit for time already spent in jail.
Glasgow shot Scott, 39, to death during a struggle in the washroom of the restaurant during the supper hour.
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Through the seasons
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Wildlife habitats in Surrey
We have a stunning mixture of landscapes in Surrey, from the beautiful chalk meadows of the North Downs, to the vast heathlands of the Thames Basin and the sites we look after are home to a wide range of habitats and wildlife and include ancient woodland, heathland, species-rich grassland and wetland.
The varied landscapes under our care require careful monitoring and management by the Trust to ensure that they are in good condition for wildlife and safely accessible to the public.
© Paul Harris/2020VISION
Found in the west of Surrey, our heathlands form some of the wildest landscapes in the county. Once considered wasteland of little value, they are now appreciated and protected for their unique wildlife and beauty.
Lowland heath is characterised by heathers, gorse and grasses. On infertile, well-drained sands and gravels, ling and gorse are dominant. Wet heath is found where either shallow peat or mineral soils are seasonally waterlogged and supports cross-leaved heath, ling and bog mosses. They may also be more species-rich than dry heath.
Lowland heathland is defined by the poor fertility of its soils, which discourages other plants, and a long history of human management.
Only plants adapted to the poor, acidic heathland soils flourish, and some resort to unusual means to gain nutrients – carnivorous sundews have glandular tentacles with sticky droplets on their leaves, while lousewort parasitizes the roots of other plants to gain nutrients.
If left to their own devices heathlands eventually develop into woodland. The establishment of now abandoned Scots pine plantations for timber in Victorian times has speeded up this process.
When effectively managed, heaths can support reptiles like the smooth snake and sand lizard and birds like the Dartford warbler and nightjar.
Traditional heathland activities such as livestock grazing have played a vital role in maintaining heathland in Surrey. Our volunteers also regularly cut down birch and Scots pine and we also create bare ground using scrapes. Not all trees are taken down, as we also want to create habitat for the specialist heathland birds
© Guy Edwardes/2020VISION
Lowland mixed oak and ash woods are the archetypal woodland of the Surrey Hills. Growing on deep, fertile brown soils, oak and ash usually dominate the canopy, with a tall understorey of hazel and field maple. Hornbeam or lime can also form the canopy and elms or sweet chestnut may have been planted.
On acidic soils, carpets of bluebells and wood anemone cover the woodland floor in spring, while dog’s mercury or ramsons indicate more species-rich limey conditions, with rarities such as herb-Paris and Solomon’s seal.
England’s most wooded county, Surrey also has swathes of ancient woodland, home to ancient 1,000-year-old yews.
Wet woodland is characterised by willow, birch and alder that thrive in poorly drained or seasonally flooded soils. Wet woodland known as “carr” is often low-canopied, with willow and alder growing over plants such as meadowsweet.
Although they might not look like it, our woodlands have been shaped by human activities over millennia. Most were managed through coppicing for firewood and charcoal. This practice periodically opened up the canopy and provided the habitat favoured by many woodland species. However, coppicing became uneconomical with the arrival of coal and many woodlands were abandoned, cleared or overplanted.
Abandonment or insensitive management has resulted in the loss of clearings, coppices and glades, leading to massive declines in many woodland species such as dormice. Conservation needs to reintegrate sensitive woodland management with local economics if it is to be sustainable. The Trust sells some of the timber we remove as part of our woodland management, with the money reinvested in conservation.
Chalk downland
The short, aromatic turf of chalk grassland is flower-rich and humming with insects in the summer and the chalky soil of the North Downs in Surrey give rise to a spectacular range of specialist species.
Famous for its variety of flora (there can be over 40 species per square metre of turf) and its rare and beautiful butterflies, chalk grassland is home to a huge range of invertebrates and there are hundreds of rare species associated with the habitat, including a succession of orchids throughout the summer.
The mix of bare ground, short vegetation and longer tussocks together with plenty of flowering plants are ideal for a range of bees, ants, hoverflies, beetles and grasshoppers. On sunny days with little wind, butterflies including chalkhill, small and Adonis blues can be also be seen on some sites.
Woodland clearance, which started during the Mesolithic Period (11,500BCE – 4000BCE), may have occurred first in areas where the woodland was sparse, such as on the thin, well-drained soils found over limestone. Subsequent livestock grazing prevented succession back to woodland and, along with the thin soils, discouraged more vigorous plants. Together with sunny south-facing slopes, this created conditions suitable for the characteristic wildlife seen today.
Chalk grassland was once widespread wherever suitable conditions occurred. However, changes to agriculture meant that sites began to be ploughed and downland was no longer grazed. Now the only areas left tend to be those too steep to plough or re-seed. On the remaining sites, scrub encroachment is being managed through grazing and mowing at key times of the year.
Wetlands & rivers
© Jon Hawkins
Teeming with invertebrates, rich in plants and a haven for mammals, wetlands are a vital part of our natural world. Found mainly in the east of Surrey, these places are home to a wide range of species.
As well as providing a valuable habitat for wildlife, wetland are also vital forms of flood defence and water purification.
Raised bogs are much wetter than the surrounding land – the peat acts as a sponge, retaining rainwater that is only gradually released through evaporation, and sometimes a small stream arising from the bog.
These very wet conditions are ideal for acid-loving bog-mosses, cotton grasses, cross-leaved heath, bog asphodel and deer-grass.
Found in the zone between water and land, reedbeds are transitional habitats. Thickly vegetated yet waterlogged, they are home to species such as bittern.
Drier areas above the winter water level may provide habitat for water voles and scrubby islands may be used by otters.
Surrey is also home to the Wey, Mole and Thames river catchments. These arteries form natural highways through our developed environment and connect our wild landscapes. Species such as otters are gradually returning to these habitats.
Why are they like this?
Wetlands can be found in low-lying areas. Raised bogs began as shallow lakes and wet hollows, which, over time, filled with the un-decayed remains of vegetation until peat formed.
Our programme of removing invasive wetland species such as Himalayan balsam, restoring river banks and monitoring and improving water quality through our RiverSearch project are all key to conserving wetland wildlife.
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How to get through a 100-mile ultra marathon
Gediminas Grinius won silver at this year’s 170 km (105 mile) Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc – UTMB, one of the world’s premier ultra marathons. His secret? It’s staying relaxed and finding his inner warrior.
Gediminas finding his inner samurai before an ultra marathon in Japan. © Gediminas Grinius
Lithuanian ultrarunner Gediminas Grinius is riding a high after an outstanding performance at UTMB in France. Winning silver tastes especially sweet because in last year’s race he pulled out due to injury.
“Before this year’s race I felt very good, the best shape ever,” he says. “My preparation was excellent.”
Here are Gediminas’s tips for the different phases of an ultra marathon.
Race day morning
It’s easy to feel pressure and stress before a race begins. It’s important to do what you need to do to stay calm. The best way to do that is to stick to your routine, rather than adjusting it for others. I like to spend time with my family, just enjoying life, before a race begins.
© Gediminas Grinius
The start
The beginning of a race is often very fast and chaotic. Later in the race, many runners that started too fast are dead. It’s important to be patient, to keep calm and follow your own pace. Don’t try to keep up with other runners. The race is long so it’s good to keep reserves for later. Now it’s time to relax and enjoy the race.
It’s also important to begin and maintain your nutrition routine, whether you measure it by aid stations or by time.
“Pain is temporary, glory lasts forever.”
As the race settles down, my plan is to stick to other runners, following their pace because together we’re stronger. It helps me to feel stronger and I can push more from that place.
I’m not a good runner in the beginning. The first 30 or 40 km I’m warming up. After that I know how the race will be because I can feel how my body is reacting. If my body lets me go at a good pace, then I go with that. If it’s not my day, then I go with that, and back off.
The suffering
Eventually you reach a point when you are suffering. It’s impossible to avoid. You know it’s going to happen. You must be patient. I always remind myself, “pain is temporary and glory is forever”. If you’re suffering, remember it will pass.
When I’m struggling, I use a mental technique. For example, when I was in Japan competing in the Ultra-Trail Mt Fuji, I imagined I was a samurai warrior fighting bad guys. It’s a kind of mental game to cope with difficulties. I visualise myself as different characters.
“As a father, I remember I’m setting a good example to my children – to finish whatever you start.”
During the final stage, I’m thinking about things that generate positive emotions. For example, I think about my family and how grateful I am they supported me during the long night of the race. It gives me some push and I can move faster. It’s about cultivating good vibes. I know I will feel so much when I see them. As a father, I remember I’m setting a good example to my children – to finish whatever you start. My kids see how stubborn I am and that I do what I love. It’s a good lesson for them.
Follow Gediminas's adventures on his Facebook page and his Movescount page.
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Home UiO Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Social Anthropology
UiO UiO University of Oslo Department of Social Anthropology Faculty of Social Sciences
TRACES - Transmitting contentious cultural heritages with the arts
GLOBAL TRACES abstracts
Presenters and abstracts.
Time and place: GLOBAL TRACES abstracts Feb. 7, 2019 9:30 AM–Feb. 8, 2019 6:30 PM, Blindern Campus, University of Oslo, various auditoria are listed in the short version of the programme
Link to short version of the programme
Thursday 7 February
Wenzel Geissler – “The entomology of ethnology. Subtle hunting and the anthropology of the trace.”
Professor – Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo (UiO, p.w.geissler@sai.uio.no
Studying colonial entomology (as part of an historical anthropology-cum-archaeology of scientific research stations in Africa) reveals affinities between entomological and ethnographic (and historical) field research and resulting texts. Inspired by the re-collections in Ernst Jünger’s autobiographical insect taxonomy, I will reflect on the potential of naturalism for the anthropology of the human trace, and for the ephemeral and fragmented ethnographic encounter with difference - with not-self, not-present, or not-human other.
Can anthropology partake in the entomologist’s patient ‘Anschauung’: recognising diversity and coherence in the overlooked or formless, finding openings to infinity in smallest form, surprise in repetition and routine; and emulating her targeted passivity, waiting, allowing ‘matter to respond from the nameless’ (Jünger). And can ethnology present a natural history of its (segment of a) world, acutely conscious of its limitations – of the unpredictability, irregularity, partiality and ephemerality of any moment of actual seeing – an yet aware of larger forces, largest order, glimpsed though small openings in the surface of reality.
Some contingent, though not random, moments of adhesion from the historical ethnography of biological science in postcolonial Africa will, I hope, show the potential of an emphatically empiricist and materialist, as well as eclectic and anachronistic, approach, while at the same time pointing towards some problems and limitations. Here the conversation with Jünger in particular forces want to confront issues of arbitrariness, anesthetization and political effect.
Nadine Wanono – “Voices from the archives”
Senior researcher, IMAf-CNRS-EHESS-EPHE-IRD-AMU, Rédactrice en chef AnthroVision, Secrétaire générale Les Ecrans de la Liberté. Nadine.WANONO@cnrs.fr
The Dogon mask has been a worldwide ethnographic landmark for many years as well as the main interest of ethnologists and museums. The population's daily life and the memories of colonial history kept away from the discourse.
These archives describe precisely the different military strategies employed in order to subdue the population to the colonial power. The precision of the description within the authoritative legacy is particularly offensive and outrageous. From these different sources I conceived a short installation with Dogon masks made from junk materials. These lines, words coming form the colonial period and the junk material are both considered leftovers. Through this experience I question the different ways a creative practice transmits contentious cultural heritage by establishing a vital dialogue with the population directly concerned and affected by these historical events.
Valentina Bonifacio –“Destiempo: dynamogram of Puerto Casado (Paraguay)”
Phd/Researcher and Lecturer in Visual Anthropology and Applied Anthropology, Department of Humanistic Studies at Ca 'Foscari University, Venice (Italy). valentina.bonifacio@unive.it
This paper is a reflection on my collaboration as an ethnographer with Paraguayan curator Lia Colombino and a group of Paraguayan artists in the making of an exhibition about the history of an ex-tannin factory in Paraguay. For about one hundred years, the factory has been described by the Paraguayan government, local historians and by the company itself as a successful example of the neo-colonial tale of linear progress and indefinite development. Developed as a counter-time, out-of-sync narrative to this neo-colonial apology of development, the exhibition “Destiempo” aims at narrating the historical legacy of the factory and its contested present. In particular, I will focus on the work of the artists Fredi Casco and on the process of co-creation of “Bicho ra’anga”, a piece he created in specific for the exhibition. “Bicho ra’anga” is based on the manipulation of a folder of documents that I rescued during my fieldwork in 2007 which belonged to the abandoned ex-factory archive. Infused with renewed life, the original documents
Christian Sørhaug, Kjartan Fønstelien and Serge von Arx – “Our Gruesome Cultural Heritage” Cultural heritage plays a central role in contemporary efforts at nation building.
Cristian Sørhaug - Associate Professor Østfold College, Department of Health and Welfare, christian.sorhaug@hiof.no
Kjartan Fønstelien - Assistant Professor Østfold College, Department of Scenography, kjartan.foenstelien@hiof.no
Serge von Arx – Professor Østfold College, Department of Scenography, serge.p.arx@hiof.no
In our project, we explore established national narratives. Following Deleuze and Guattari who suggests that “The concern of the State is to conserve”, we analyze cultural heritage as strategies for states to conserve legitimacy. If this is the case, we need to ask critical questions concerning whose cultural heritage is conserved and how heritage practices create “otherness”? The gruesome fact is that some things become public and other not; some are included from society, others are not. Our project try to deconstruct three master narratives from the island Håøya in Oslofjord; the sinking of the German warship Blücher, Gestapo execution of communist resistance fighters and prostitutes forced to labor on a weapon factory during The great war. Using traces from the past, the students crate alternative monuments performing these stories in different ways. The paper present some ethnographic accounts of how the students cooperate and build monuments. Our analytical strategy is to approach cultural heritage monuments as heterogenic assemblages of humans and nonhumans taking on a temporary configuration in order to unravel alternative way of remembering.
keynote: Prof. Khadija von Zinnenburg-Caroll – “Cook's New Clothes and the Reparation of Fragile Times”
Professorial Fellow, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies, University of Birmingham. Chair of Global Art History. k.v.z.carroll@bham.ac.uk
Contested Heritage often circles around the claim to restitution of cultural property. This keynote will explore the relationship between art practice and ethnography in the context of two contested repatriation claims. One is the return of Moctezuma's Crown from the Vienna Weltmuseum to Mexico. The second case is Cook Taonga going back from the UK to Aoterroa/New Zealand and the art project Cook's New Clothes which seeks to subvert the commemoration of the first voyage of discovery in the Pacific captained by Lieutenant James Cook.
The processes of ethnography and creative practise and the relationships between these provide a variety of strategies of dealing with contested heritage from the perspectives of contemporary art and anthropology. The relationship between contemporary makers and the contested authority of anthropology museums is studied through ethnography with contemporary communities who have stakes in their heritage. Experimental art and writing practises are employed to deal with these contested repatriations in ways that move them beyond the traditional tracings of academia. These include Nikolaus Gansterer and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll's The Restitution of Complexity, which is based on a forthcoming book for Chicago University Press on repatriation.
Kris Rutten – “Exploring European identification and division through cultural heritage.”
Prof. Dr. Kris Rutten, Ghent University, Department of Educational Studies, Ghent University, Belgium. Kris.Rutten@ugent.be
The central ambition of the Horizon 2020 call "REFLECTIVE-2-2015: Emergence and Transmission of European Culture Heritage and Europeanization", was to explore the potential of (immaterial) cultural heritage in overcoming the current “EU crisis”. From this perspective, cultural heritage and the arts are seen in such calls as crucial resources for “the collective memories and sociability of groups”, to “promote diversity and intercultural understanding”, and to “promote intergenerational dialogue and social cohesion”. In this paper, we develop a critical analysis of this policy driven research agenda by problematizing the instrumentalization of cultural heritage for the creation of a common European identity. We focus on the European crisis as a crisis of democracy, that is, a crisis where Europe as a democratic ‘project’ has come under pressure and where Europe’s democratic future is therefore at stake. From this perspective, we ask in what ways and to what extent (immaterial) cultural heritage can contribute to organizing, promoting and fostering support for Europe’s democratic project, and how it can strengthen identification. Based on the assumption that art is an important resource for questions of cultural heritage-making, we will specifically focus on how the ethnographic turn in contemporary art can offer a framework for critically assessing and tracing the role that cultural heritage can play for Europe’s democratic future.
Eleana Yalouri – “Negotiating difficult relationships: Contemporary artists engaging with classical Greek heritage”
Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. eleanayalouri@yahoo.co.uk
In recent decades a booming bibliography in archaeology and anthropology has been devoted to the discussion of the ‘difficult’ relationship between Greeks and their ancient heritage. The controversies and paradoxes arising from Greek classical antiquity as a simultaneously local, national, and global heritage, the '(crypto) colonial' gaze of the Western world over antiquity in constructing the idea of ‘ancient Greece’ along with the modern Greek past and present, the juxtaposition of the 'glorious' past with the Greek present, and the relationship between the classical past with other pasts of Greece, are all familiar issues that have been plaguing the Greek state ever since its establishment, connecting or dividing a society that has grown up with the legacy of ‘the golden’ classical antiquity.
While these issues have been extensively explored and continue to preoccupy archaeologists, anthropologists and scholars working in-between the two disciplines, contemporary art has also developed a particular interest in these issues in recent decades.
In my contribution I will discuss certain trends and interests which are beginning to emerge in the works of contemporary Greek artists as well as in collective art projects and exhibitions in Greece. These are going against a tradition which used to embrace, imitate and/or be inspired by dominant narratives about the ancient Greek past. They are beginning to problematize established versions of history, urging one to ask whether contemporary art can play a more active and dynamic role in the difficult relationship between the Greek present and the ancient Greek heritage. I will present examples of relevant artworks and I will conclude by comparing these trends and interests with some of the ways in which the international art institution documenta 14 ‘Learning from Athens’ engaged recently with classical Greek antiquity.
Michaela Schäuble & Anja Dreschke – “Tracing Tarantism - An ethnographic study of an Apulian ritual between art performance and cultural heritage”
Michaela Schäuble - professor of social anthropology, University of Bern (CH).
michaela.schaeuble@anthro.unibe.ch
Anja Dreschke - Visual and media anthropologist, research fellow, University of Bern and fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. mail@anjadreschke.de
In our presention we propose to portray the crossmedia project ›Tarantism Revisited‹ which builds on current research on the remnants and revival of popular religious practices and aims at exploring how tradition, heritage and cultural identity are presently created and mobilised through religious performances. Focusing on the ethnographic example of tarantism, the project traces the multiple facets of a phenomenon that has been endemic to Southern Italy for at least five hundred years yet currently experiences an unprecedented revival and growth in popularity. In the past decade, tarantism and pizzicato music have become a crucial element of local popular culture in Apulia which not only attracts ten thousands of tourists, but has also become part of the transnational world music scene, thus contributing to the construction of a new, neo-traditional local identity. In our project – in collaboration with local performers, musicians, and activists – we primarily focus on the performance aspects of tarantism, thus highlighting its role as politicised multimedia event along with its importance as cultural and economic resource in the region. Using innovative and collaborative media formats the project investigates the complex history and present mobilisation of tarantism as a tourist spectacle and politicised site of folklore, cultural heritage and female empowerment. The project encompasses three interlinked activities: the realisation of a 60-minute documentary film and complementary 360° videos, both of which formats will culminate in and contribute to an interactive multimedia website (comprising historic and contemporary photographs, explanatory texts, short video clips, sound pieces, interview excerpts and samples of tarantella music).
Bernard Müller – “What to do with the spoils of the colonial wars? The (“ethnographic”) object as ticking time bomb and the artist as artificer”
Researcher/lecturer EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), and researcher member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Issues (IRIS = UMR 8156 - CNRS-Inserm-EHESS-University Paris 13). muller6691@gmail.com
More and more, the ethnographic museums, museums of civilization or world museums involve artists preferably living, and coming from the regions of collection. Often presented as anecdotal, the task incumbent on artists is in fact crucial: it is a matter of instilling coevalness in institutions still structurally allochronic, like the methods of his discipline (ethnology). The artistic intervention is expected to unjam the gripped institutional tools inherited from the 19th century whose organizational and bureaucratic principles - however lapsed - are still effective. The artworks are then supposed to open a breach in the temporal safe that is the museum to let the contradictions of the world of today, with its infinite political abundance, and its fabulous social inventiveness. One of the stakes is none the less the renegotiation of a new modus vivendi, a political project definitively freed from colonial racialism and its contemporary avatars, in phase with increasingly multicultural societies in search of a new political frame of coexistence. Through artistic means, the "ethnographic" object is thus invited to move from the status of symbol of a past trauma to that of emblem of a new postcolonial order in preparation, and still with vague contours (notably because of the provincialization the Old Continent and the emergence of the Pacific as a new center of world capitalism). Who will be fooled by this bargain that no one will escape unscathed?
Examples of artistic interventions in various museums in Europe will be illustrated in the light (or shadow?) of current experiments in the ethnographic collections of Saxony, notably in "Prolog # 10" (http: / /prolog-ausstellung.info) and in my seminar-workshop "Museum on the Couch - reflexive and creative explorations in ethnographic collections" (http://ethno.gko.uni-leipzig.de/index.php/en/museum/ museum-on-the-couch) in collaboration with the Institut für Ethnologie zu Leipzig and IRIS, EHESS, Paris.
Alyssa Grossman – “A Catalogue of Useless Rocks”
Lecturer in Communication and Media, Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool. alysrgrossman@gmail.com
This paper discusses a collaborative work-in-progress between an anthropologist (myself) and a visual artist (Selena Kimball), regarding a collection of rocks stored at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The rocks were gathered in the early 1900s by Erland Nordenskiöld, an ethnologist researching indigenous South American material culture and cultural history. While most of the artifacts that he sent back to Sweden (pottery, baskets, stone tools, carvings) comprise a predictable array of items common to colonial-era collections, they also include an assortment of ordinary rocks, stones with no obvious anthropological function or value. They are catalogued according to their geographical origin and date of acquisition, but possess little additional contextualizing information. Why are they kept here, as opposed to a museum of natural history or geology? What did Nordenskiöld see in them, and why have no other researchers paid them any attention?
Kimball and I are interested in these overlooked fragments from the museum’s holdings. Embracing hands-on, improvisational, exploratory routes into the ethnographic archive, we are investigating the physical and material qualities of Nordenskiöld’s rocks, their textual and photographic documentations, and their potential associations with individual dreams, cultural memories, and de-colonial narratives. Our project draws inspiration from practices of ‘curature’ (Hamilton and Skotnes 2014) within museum settings, using creative methods of assemblage, bricolage, and defamiliarization to critique traditional scientific mechanisms of collection, classification, and display.
Janine Prins –“The (dis)comfort of things”
Guest lecturer/coordinator in Visual Anthropology/Visual Methods at Leiden University Faculty of Social Sciences, janineprins@xs4all.nl
As a visual anthropologist I started pointing the camera at well-travelled objects in my relatives’ private homes. Remnants of a colonial heritage, these objects span three generations in the former Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia. The stuff seemed to provide a nostalgic comfort zone that nowadays needs contestation.
First the recordings and objects received through inheritances resulted in the installation Legacy of Silence, drawing on Latour's Making Things Public. Authentic objects from my Eurasian heritage got partnered with multiple screens in a pop-up artist studio, inviting visitors into an immersive participatory space with an open-ended private (post)colonial microhistory.
The work invites visitors to consider multiple, contradictory interpretations, which provoke thought about contemporary social hierarchies, and also open up an unpredictable range of affects and meanings that evade existing categorisation, like that of victim versus perpetrator or coloniser versus colonised.
However, despite allowing heterogeneous viewpoints that activate ongoing reflection, the points of view remained highly Eurocentric. The project, which operates between art and ethnography, currently seeks views collected from Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese and American sources in order to trace even more layers belonging to the colonial stuff and stories in our surroundings. What meanings can be traced, to whom, when?
Cathy Greenhalgh – “The Warp and Weft of Contested Cotton Stories: film as a bridge between museums in the UK, India and Poland.”
Independent Scholar and Doctoral Researcher, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. cathygreenhalghcinema@gmail.com
Cottonopolis (2019 forthcoming), is my sensory ethnographic feature documentary film essay. It traces cotton textile manufacture in contemporary India, intercut with memories of people from “Manchesters”, mega-textile cities; Manchester; Ahmedabad, Gujarat, known as “the Manchester of the East”, and Lodz, known as the “Manchester of Poland”. It fuses elements of the global history of empire and slavery, cities copying the Manchester factory system, political and social decline, sustainability and regeneration, machine and hand-made aesthetics. This artistic intervention and collaborative work involves ethical questions evoking my own Lancashire cotton ancestors lives. Filmmaking provides a way to reveal contestable histories displayed in these museum contexts and include diverse audiences through storytelling and juxtaposition. My empirical evidence shows different agencies and unravels the gaps between UK, Indian and Polish museums which “tell the story of cotton” (Sabarmati (Gandhi) Ashram, Calico Museum, Rajnagar Mill, Ahmedabad; Textiles Museum, Manufaktura, Lodz; MOSI, Manchester). Drawing on ‘migratory aesthetics’ (Bal, 2006) and alternative art/anthropology methodology (eg: Schneider, Ed, 2017), I show how heritage can be performed (re-enactors, texts, objects, settings) in ways which can either promulgate misrepresentation or create more inclusive connected engagement.
Rubén Guzmán – “The Noise of Time: navigating the periphery of anthropological experimental essay film”
Rubén Guzmán - Professor/ researcher, Laboratorio Texto, Imagen y Sociedad (LabTIS) and Universidad Nacional de Río Negro (UNRN), rguzman@unrn.edu.ar
Argentina Born in the blurry intersection between ethnography and experimental essay film, The Noise of Time proposes a creative and innovative dialog between anthropology, distorted perspectives, essay film, literature, philosophy, art, memory and time. It expands the concept of the so-called anthropological documentaries, for it shamelessly incorporates subjective digressions, multiple disciplines and plastic and formal explorations. Based on the life and research studies by Swedish-Argentinean anthropologist Eric Boman (1867-1924), who was the first one to thoroughly study the ethnic groups of the Andean plateau, or Puna region, The Noise of Time constitutes a reflection upon civilization and time, as seen from the perspective of Boman's revisiting ghost. The presentation will focus on the creative processes and on the exciting difficulties and possibilities in navigating the troubled waters between all disciplines involved. The talk will include topics such as research, concept, (experimental) treatment, (unconventional) scriptwriting and structure, and it will be illustrated with examples. The Noise of Time is a biannual research project (currently in progress) coproduced by the Universidad Nacional de Río Negro (UNRN) and the Laboratorio Texto, Imagen y Sociedad (LabTIS) - UNRN, Argentina.
Keywords ethnography, anthropology, experimental, essay, film, art
Petra Rethmann – “Chto delat’s memorial histor, or, monuments for the left?”
Professor, Director/Graduate Advisor of IGHC, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University. rethman@mcmaster.ca
In September 2017, the St. Petersburg-Moscow art collective chto delat’ (what needs to be done), built up an artistic monument in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution on Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square. Created in conjunction with Toronto’s contemporary art festival Nuit Blanche, and Creative Time, a New York-based public art non-profit organization. Chto delat’s monument consisted of eight shipping crates housing various artistic renderings of historical revolutions, ranging from 1917 Russia to 1956 Cuba. What’s more, from November 2017 until April 2018, in Mexico City’s Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo the collective exhibited a “monumental timeline,” featuring a history of left revolutions, ranging from the 1871 Paris Commune to the 1994 Zapatista Uprising. In building on participation in workshops and interviews with the collective, as well as aesthetic examinations of their art, here I am interested in examining how chto delat’ imagination of left history, including the kind of history the collective argues the left needs.
In the last few years, concerns with how the left should remember its own history have emerged in anthropological, political, and postcolonial scholarship (Wilder; Scott). Greatly animated by the work of Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, and Reinhart Koselleck, scholars ask about conceptualizations of memory as future-oriented and unclosed. In building on this work, in this talk I ask if chto delat’ conceptualization constitutes a meaningful practice for the left, and – if so – under what conditions.
Tracy Mackenna – “The Artist and the Collector: storytelling and official narratives”
Professor, Chair of Contemporary Art Practice, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. t.mackenna@dundee.ac.uk
The Museum of Loss and Renewal is an artist-led platform. Its curators, Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen, develop in collaboration with others art projects that address issues of societal concern such as well-being, end of life and sustainability. Applying a durational curatorial approach to the habitation and activation of a depopulated, familial mountain village in central Italy, the artists are engaged with two ‘unofficial’ WWII museums. The collections consist of artefacts gathered by their custodians, local individuals, from the surrounding mountainous area. The Winter Line battle terrain was documented by photographer Robert Capa, and the film San Pietro (1945) was made by John Huston while serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Local, global, universal and subjective histories are being explored and presented through artistic research methods.
John Manton – “The Leprosy Centre, Uzuakoli. The failure of paper and persistence of sound.”
Assistant professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, john@urard.net
This intervention considers and contextualises the remains of the recording apparatus at the Leprosy Centre and Research Unit, Uzuakoli, Nigeria, a location of deep trauma and contentious cultural heritage. It reconstructs an imagined biography of a failed archive from the fragments encountered on a visit to the Centre in 2006, and the stories of its demise recounted in 2015, counterpointed and interwoven with an elegy for the musical production of the Centre's most eminent patient and resident, the composer and activist Ikoli Harcourt Whyte. This imagined biography/elegy, at once scholarly and performative, foregrounds the relations between Nigerian and international public health planning and chemotherapeutic research, entwined colonial and Nigerian cultural production and recording apparatus, and Nigerian bodies and communities, indexed in the production, organisation, and deployment of records of lives lived with leprosy, according to the archival techniques developed over forty years of information gathering. Finally, it considers the significance of the ruination of these records, interpreting their scattering, heaping, and (literal) consumption as elaborating a critical aesthetics of the African state, its memory, and its trajectories
Sorayut Aiemueayt – “The Vernacular aesthetics and the pictorial digital ethnography in Malaysian Tamil community.”
Doctoral candidate in Research Area Visual and Media Anthropology, Free University of Berlin, and a lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the Department of Media, art, and design, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. sorayut27@gmail.com
This paper point attention to the pictorial practices in a small studio engaged Malaysian Tamil community, the working class who has the historical background as the forced immigrant from the British colonial era in Malay peninsula. This studio offers mainly the photographic services and edits the portrait image in the digital collage by changing the environment to the religious screen, the attractive places, and the colour abstract.
The discussions in this paper are the illusion of colonial traces and the artistic embodiment. Malaysian Tamil is the colonial heritage as the cultural stereotype of docility who work hard and tedious in the industry. The work of art in this small studio is a pictorial digital ethnography for re-narrating Malaysian Tamils identity to the lively, creative person and shows the process of redefining identity. Moreover, the aesthetic in their work is a critical dialogue with the professional artist. The contrast, unevenness, and the reduced resolution embodied the vernacular aesthetics and made the local producer to be the traveller in the digital no man's land. This process is not an only challenge to masterpieces of artwork but has become the language and present the original of reproduction that democratising art and politic coherence.
Jean Delsaux and Pascale Weber – “Travel and creation within and against globalization.”
Pascale Weber is an artist and researcher in Paris 1 Sorbonne University (Senior associate Professor) pascaleweber@hantu.fr
Jean Delsaux is an artist and researcher, University of Clermont Auvergne UCA, jean.delsaux@uca.fr
We have payed two visits to Norwegian Sapmi during which we met researchers as well as Reindeer hurdlers or salmon fishermen. With them, we approached the questions raised by the destruction of a culture and its reappropriation by the descendants.
Understanding what is at stake in the claim of cultural reappropriation, of a refoundation and resurgence of identity, of a rewriting of History, this work allows different generations to meet and highlight the link that binds the population to the territory it occupies.
Our approach of artists focused on issues of identity, encounters with other cultures, the Sami, but also the Innu, Inuit, and various migrations that could put them in contact.
Everywhere we have met the painful traces that colonialism, economic and ideological, have left behind in the regions concerned, be it Europe or North America.
We exchanged, not by the speech, but by the dance, the image, the performance.
This allowed us to perform outside of our landmarks and to question ourselves about our own cultural representations, to nourish our work as researchers in Art, Anthropology and Aesthetics.
We propose to show how artists, arriving in an unknown territory, strive to meet, understand, exchange, build a mode of relationship outside of globalized colonialism.
Mischa Twitchin – “Time Crystals”
Dr Mischa Twitchin, Theatre and Performance Dept., Goldsmiths, University of London. M.Twitchin@gold.ac.uk,
Taking up Deleuze’s concept of “crystals of time”, Maurizio Lazzarato proposes an understanding of video as a double of the temporal relations between perceiver and perceived, with each becoming a difference not simply from the other but from itself. In a sense, this perhaps offers a paradigm of and for the ethnographic as a reflexive practice. Attentive to the technical sensorium and its historical inventions of experience, Lazzarato declares: “the technologies of vision force us to denaturalise our mode of apprehension,” where “machines to crystalise time are at the heart of the processes of the production of subjectivity, because time… is the power to affect and to be affected.” In exploring how essay-film (distinct from documentary) might provide examples of this for a decolonising understanding of museum ethnography today, my presentation will address both historical materials and film work of my own. I wish to consider here how an anthropology of images in metropolitan museums “exposes” the anthropology that these museums themselves present in their own image; or, in Preziosi’s suggestion, “what it is we imagine we see when we see museums imagining us.”
Elizabeth Cory-Pearce – “Ahead of the de-colonising intervention: Maori colonial portraiture as a co-produced object”
Dr Elizabeth Cory-Pearce, Researcher & Consultant, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London, E.Cory-Pearce@TavInstitute.org
Based on ethnography among Maori families in Rotorua (Aotearoa-New Zealand) who have a deep history of employment in (and deployment of) cultural heritage industries, my paper illustrates the importance of combining fieldwork with comparative museum research so as to identify images, texts, objects and performances produced by these same families, and now located in public and private collections worldwide. By combining the two, my research uncovers and foregrounds the at times deliberate roles Maori (and in particular Maori women) took in fashioning their own imagery in this part of the world, from the late 19th century.
As colonial photography proliferated within the tourism industries of Rotorua, Maori responses were typically both appropriative (they consumed the imagery for their own purposes) and expansive (they became patrons of preferred photographers and so influenced their work). Ahead of late 20th century artists’ decolonising interventions – i.e. before, but understood in the Oceanic temporal sense of a past that lies ahead of us, as we walk backwards into the future facing our ancestral past as template and guide – attention to the detail of personal collections and recollections reveals that where families see forbears and the presence of ancestral authorship in colonial portraiture, an oppositional or counter-narrative approach based on the notion of a ‘decolonising re-appropriation’ is for these families not necessary.
Such images have, since their creation, and continuing today, always been experienced as co- or multiply-produced. They depict layered and multiple subjectivities, and can be read as at once cosmopolitan and modern; and, in the finer grain of their labelling, posture, and apparel, and in the mode in which they are displayed, and continually re-performed, as offering (and continuing to offer) Maori a contemporary counterpart to ritual practices now ceased (such as the preservation and exhumation of deceased forebears bodies).
Annemarie Bücher – “REALLABS: collaborative agency and bottom up development of cultural landscapes”
Dr. Annemarie Bucher, Zurich University of the Arts, Lecturer Department of Art & Media, Co-Head MAS Arts & Society, ab@foa-flux.net
People identify with the places they call home and they have a desire to see these thrive. Worldwide large-scale development projects are transforming everyday landscapes of living environments radically and rapidly. Such decreed planning often blindsides local communities and puts them into a reactive position incapable of taking part and implementing their inherent knowledge about their places.
This paper discusses how artistic tactics and collaborative research merges with community based regional landscape development. It focusses on the specific approach of Jatiwangi art factory (JaF), a community-orientied group of artists in Jatisura, West Java. JaF aims to develop discourses around local rural life through arts and cultural activities, such as festivals, exhibitions, artist residencies, public discussions and other tactics.
To actively influence ongoing environmental and social transformation processes JaF and FOA-FLUX have initiated research workshops and an interregional transdisciplinary network of (art) groups working in social and environmental scapes (REALLABS UNIVERSITY).
The objectives of these activities are to establish a collaborative research setting, to critically evaluate the changing cultural landscape, including landforms, traditions and present ways of living, and to implement this knowledge for activating the search for alternative developement.
Keywords: Art as agent, cultural landscapes, place identity, regional development, participatory planning, gotong royong, Reallabs University, Jatiwangi art Factory (JaF), FOA-FLUX
Dominique Lämmli – “Working With Art In Social Transformation”
Dominique Lämmli is an artist, philosopher, and educator. Professor in Drawing & Painting, Zurich University of the Arts. Directs the NPO research FOA-FLUX (foa-flux.net). dl@foa-flux.net
This paper discusses current art practice in Hong Kong and Indonesia integrating heritage (traditional knowledge, know-how, crafts, manufacturing facilities, products, materials, buildings, museums, and exhibitions) into every-day practices. In doing so, this paper takes a practice-led, philosophical, and anthropological approach. The descriptions of the discussed phenomena build upon a ten year-long research on how functions of art have glocally and globally been effected by artists pursuing holistic perspectives on the world. They are fusing locally anchored art notions and contemporary art strategies, addressing socio-political issues, building upon inherited practices, goods, and achievements. Thereby, heritage is understood as a source for cultural development and for bringing about new perspectives of sustainable living and related forms of behaviour, work processes, and production modes. Therefore, the objective of such art practices is not only to hand down cultural heritage, but also to productively use it for opening up alternative activity spaces for experimental and reality changing endeavours.
Keywords:Protecting and transforming heritage, serendipity and community based activities, glocal art notions, regional development, agents for change, sustainable living, artists working reality, artistic process and production.
Sara Dornhof – “Artistic Engagements with Transcultural Memories and Heritage in Morocco”
Research fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Freie Universität Berlin/ Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg Konstanz, University of Konstanz dornhof.sarah@gmail.com
The notion of cultural heritage is increasingly contested in relation to authoritative agency in defining and delimiting normative ideas of cultural authenticity, origins, and collective memory. In this process, contemporary art practices play a significant part in challenging official memory politics and dominant historical narratives. By engaging with fragmented archives, material traces, and oral history accounts, artists do not only question essentialist understandings of culture and heritage, but also propose contemporary, fictional and speculative approaches to entangled histories in changing postcolonial constellations.
Based on empirical research in Morocco, my contribution will discuss art projects that inquire into marginalized or repressed memories in urban and rural contexts, thereby creating alternative ideas of heritage, counter-notions of archives, and experimental forms of transmission and circulation of historical knowledge. I will discuss different art projects that focus in particular on transcultural dimensions of heritage and their potential significance for contemporary revisions of the past. I will argue that these kinds of artistic practices provide new impulses for anthropological research on contemporary art at intersections with memory studies.
Jully Acuña Suárez & Marcelo Marques Miranda: - “Decolonizing the Representation of an Indigenous People in a Museum through Participatory Art and Co-curation”
Jully Acuña Suárez, artist and PhD researcher in the Department of Archaeological Heritage and Society at Leiden University, jullya2@gmail.com
Marcelo Marques Miranda, PhD Researcher - Heritage of Indigenous Peoples, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, marcelo.m.miranda@hotmail.com
For too long indigenous peoples have been represented and addressed from a colonial perspective. Their art is primitive and exotic craftsmanship. In museums, they are exhibited as trophies, decontextualized and desacralized. Archaeology detached them from history and claimed their property. The Museum of Sibundoy, Colombia, is a paradigmatic representative of this colonial discourse. Our research uses artistic and ethnographic practices, co-produced with the Camëntsá people, to reveal its “unofficial” and contested heritage. We also collaborate with the community to critically address the local government-managed museum, the display of human remains, and to co-curate a new exhibition based on its own interpretation of material culture, archaeological and sacred sites, and the concept of territory. The inclusion of the latter is essential in our research, as in the Camëntsá worldview this goes beyond geometrically and materially defined borders, which in turn is reflected in the way art is perceived. This process will represent the community in its contemporary context and challenge colonial precepts in art and mainstream archaeological and museum practices and sparkle a missing and much needed intercultural dialogue.
Justin Armstrong – “Remainders As Reminders: ruins as cultural heritage in a network society”
Lecturer in Writing and Anthropology, Wellesley College, jarmstro@wellesley.edu
A museum of see-through houses emerges out of North Dakota's grasslands. In Newfoundland, a forgotten island off the coast of another island holds its evaporating memories close while the world swirls in the distance. Iceland's remote Hornstrandir peninsula watches its old herring factories and abandoned farms fade into an unremembered past. This paper examines the cultural relevance and historical significance of ruins as a readymade museum. Drawing on almost two decades of ethnographic fieldwork and artistic practice in the isolated and abandoned rural places of North America and the North Atlantic, I aim to reimagine these emptied places as dynamic, generative museums and locations of artistic, touristic and academic engagement. How might we begin to understand these sites as markers of a complex and storied cultural history? How might we shift these ruins into viable and valuable points of inquiry surrounding the role of globalization as both a benefit and detriment to cultural heritage? Far from so-called ruin porn, this project offers the potential for rethinking the social and cultural importance of ruins in situ. This work aims to provide a real-world tool-kit for developing an everyday ethnography of ruination.
Alanna Cant – “Negotiating the sacred-historic in Mexican Catholic heritage.”
Dr. Alanna Cant, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent; A.Cant@kent.ac.uk
Based on ethnographic research about the restoration of a 16th century Dominican monastery in the village of Santa Cruz Mixtepec, this paper considers the conceptual and material tensions that exist between church-as-heritage and church-as-temple in Mexico. All Catholic buildings constructed in Mexico before 1992 are legally ‘national patrimony,’ federal state properties which are protected from unauthorized changes. At the same time, at least 83% of the Mexican population considers itself Catholic, and so Church buildings continue to be spaces of lived religion in which people spiritually and ritually engage with their physical elements, at times in ways that may put their historical integrity at risk. As such, the tensions created by the heritagisation of religious spaces are salient and politically significant in contemporary Mexico.
In Santa Cruz, the primary ‘stakeholders’ in the restoration project are the local civil authority; the local Catholic community; the parish priest and the institutional Church; and the restoration professionals who are overseen by the federal government. While everyone agrees that the building and its contents should be considered ‘heritage,’ they hold very different opinions about what constitutes value, knowledge and appropriate action within that space. The paper argues that rather than coming into outright conflict, these differences produce a relational social and material field in which the sacred and historic values of the buildings and objects are negotiated over time as the restoration work progresses. The paper concludes that this emergent field is characterized by aesthetics and temporalities that are particular to religious heritage spaces.
Mark R. Westmoreland, Nii Obodai, and Dennis Akuoku-Frimpong: - “Broken Ground: Sites of Storing Stories in Ghana”
Mark Westmoreland, Associate Professor, Leiden School of Visual Ethnography, m.r.westmoreland@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Nii Obodai, Director NUKU Studio, nukustudio@gmail.com
Dennis Akukoku-Frimpong, documentary photographer, member of APJD - a project of the World Press Photo Foundation and Everyday Africa and NUKU Studio, dennis.akuoku-frimpong@outlook.com
In recent years, complex changes in African landscapes have primarily been discussed in terms of ‘land grab’. Processes of extraction, such as large scale mining, are unequivocally associated with forms of dispossession. And yet, markets are complex socio-political fabrications, in which commodification of labour and land depends on simplified conceptualizations of human energy and socionatures (Richardson & Weskalnys 2014). “Before it is (marketable) ‘land’ it is ground/earth/soil/forest/pasture/ancestral territory/place of spirits” (Murray Li 2012). From the perspective of local communities, landscapes are thus an assemblage of elements (Murray Li 2014), many of which are "priceless". For people connected to the land, landscapes are sites of storing stories, but rather than privileging the way people speak about the land, multimodal and artistic approaches provide a more dynamic understanding. Accordingly, our research collaboration between anthropologists, artists, and members of local communities allowed us to bring to the fore new ways of listening to these stored stories and visualising their features. Articulating speech and visions, arts and research, and breaking barriers between researched and researchers, provides new, ground-breaking conversations about the complex and power-loaded dynamics playing out on landscapes of extraction in Ghana.
Melanie Sindelar – “The nation takes place in the future: artistic responses to cultural heritage in the Arab Gulf”
Junior Fellow Abroad & Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale. sindelar@ifk.ac.at
In this paper, I investigate how contested cultural heritage narratives in the Arab Gulf are negotiated within its art scene. In countries such as the UAE, the heritage, as well as arts sector, are state-funded to a large extent, and the state tries to provide funding possibilities to incentivize artists to produce work favorably dealing with the state’s desired national and cultural heritage narratives. During several months of fieldwork from 2015-2017 in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah, I documented the aesthetic and political responses of visual artists practicing in the UAE. I focused not only on Emirati artists but on ‘resident artists’ also, artists that have grown up in the UAE and possess a residency permit but cannot become, due to stringent immigration laws, citizens of the country. Given the Arab Gulf countries longstanding intercultural and economic exchange with Indian Ocean countries and its diaspora communities, current national narratives focusing exclusively on Bedouin heritage seem particularly misplaced in the eyes of these artists. The contrast between the multi-cultural present of the Arab Gulf and its fabricated national memory reminds of the postcolonial theorist Bhabha’s conundrum between national pasts and presents, on which I build in this paper. This conundrum, however, gets complicated by the Arab Gulf states’ expressed futuristic ambition, which has become part of nation-building agendas, and thereby, clash with imaginations of the past (and present). How do artists express forms of belonging, imaginations of temporality, and their relation to the state in their work? These questions will be answered in this paper.
Chiara de Cesari – “Creative statecraft: Art and cultural practices as forms of the political imagination”
Dr Chiara De Cesari, Senior Lecturer, Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies & Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies, University of Amsterdam. C.deCesari@uva.nl
This paper looks at contemporary Palestinian art and museum practices as forms of creative, experimental institutionalism, as instituting practices intervening in a stateless/colonial political context. In particular, through a selection of diverse cases, I reflect on the ways in which artists and cultural producers participate in forging the nation-state by performing its institutions, and by mocking its operations. How do artists set up state-like cultural institutions in a context where official ones are absent and what kind of predicaments do these instituting practices go through? I present different projects to create Palestinian national museums that tend to blur the boundaries between reality and representation. I also discuss the recent Palestinian art biennial created by a group of Palestinian non-governmental organisations. I argue that Palestinian artists and cultural producers prefigure and call into being institutions that do not yet (fully) exist. These experiments with Palestinian museums and the biennial constitute a kind of artistic practice that does not just represent or imitate the social world: these artistic practices purport to produce new social arrangements – in particular, a set of new ‘state’ cultural institutions under conditions of statelessness, or better of multisited, dispersed-and-asymmetric statehood which is the case in Palestine today. By elaborating on ongoing research in the West Bank and my notion of anticipatory representation (De Cesari 2012), I further discuss how we can see such practices as enactments of a specific political imagination fraught with tensions and contradictions under colonial conditions
Tone Cecilie Simensen Karlgård – «Congo Gaze - People, Encounters and Artifacts. Radical trust - an unrealistic ideal or conceivable practice?”
Museum lecturer – Museum of Cultural History , University of Oslo
t.c.s.karlgard@khm.uio.no
A relationship between interested persons from the Congolese diaspora in Norway and employees in the museum of Cultural History has developed since 2007. Surprising and mind blowing incidents occurred in the process of cooperating for preparing an exhibition of objects from Congo in the Ethnographic collection in 2016. The project and exhibition titled Congo Gaze – People, Encounters and Artifacts formed a part of Things method, a larger project developed with the aim of opening up the museums and inviting interested audiences to participate in open and democratic processes, inspired by Bruno Latours: Making Things Public (2005). Exploring what certain incidents might mean to people, depending on knowledge about and emotional relationships to the objects, and have a closer look at the explanations and responses exchanged between participants, are sources for the discussion in this paper
Marion Hamm. TRACES: Reports from the field. Marion.Hamm@aau.at
Elisabeth Schober. Session 1: elisabeth.schober@sai.uio.no
Arnd Schneider. Keynote arnd.schenider@uio.no
Klaus Schöneberger. Session 2: klaus.schoenberger@aau.a
Suzana Milevska. Session 3 suzanamilevska@gmail.com
Anna Szöke. Session 4: anna.szoeke@hu-berlin.de
Alenka Pirman. Session 5: alenka.pirman@gmail.com
Gro Ween. Session 6: g.b.ween@khm.uio.no
Prof. Arnd Schneider
Tags: TRACES, conference, Anthropology, Art, History
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EDITORIAL: X marks the doc
Updated: Jul 11 at 5 a.m.
Shae Morse, a teacher and community advocate, says the province’s announcement Tuesday of extended options for gender identity on identification cards and documents is a step in the right direction. - Francis Campbell
Take your driver’s licence from your wallet and cast a glance to line 15, where it says Sex/Sexe.
Until this week, every licence in Nova Scotia would have either a capital M or a capital F there, to denote whether the licence holder is male or female.
But that’s been a problem for a small number of people for a long time. What if you’re not sure whether you’re a man or a woman? What if you identify as neither?
It’s a struggle for the rest of us to understand, really, but that’s nothing compared with the struggle non-binary individuals, who identify as neither male nor female, have in fitting into society.
And that’s why we should welcome the province’s decision to allow more gender-identification options on birth certificates, driver’s licences and other provincial documents.
Changes that took effect on Tuesday will allow anyone to have additional options, either an X in the gender identity line or no gender at all.
Patricia Arab, the province’s minister in charge of Service Nova Scotia, said about 100 people have asked the province for this option, and the initiative fits in with the government’s desire to be more inclusive.
Shae Morse, a teacher who has pushed for these changes for years, said it’s “pretty exciting and liberating.” Morse also said “it’s the beginning of a conversation . . . These issues run deep. Challenging our ideas of gender is a start to that conversation.”
We agree with Morse. This change doesn’t cost anything and it recognizes the fact that some people don’t fit into standard gender categories. That is especially relevant as Pride Week approaches.
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The who's who of the Silicon Valley startup scene is meeting this week at the 2019 Startup Grind Global Conference in Redwood City, California, a small town near Palo Alto that was once ridiculed as "Deadwood City" but has since become a significant tech hub in the region—its home to Oracle, Electronic Arts, Box.com, Evernote, Impossible Foods, Nintendo, Sumo Logic and soon to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic company created by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan.
More than 8,000 people, mostly entrepreneurs, venture capital (VC) investors, and professional services providers (lawyers, accountants, etc...) are expected to attend the two-day event, which kicks off tomorrow with discussions led by Stripe cofounder John Collison, Front CEO Mathilde Collin, Box CEO Aaron Levie, Melanie Whelan, CEO of SoulCycle, and investors Jessica Verrilli (Google Ventures), Bryan Schreier (Sequoia Capital), and Steven Sinofsky (Andreessen Horowitz).
For its seventh annual edition—the fourth in Redwood City—the conference organizers have planned five concurrent stages (main, growth, storytelling, developer, venture capital) jam-packed with high-quality content provided by a roster of nearly 200 world-class entrepreneurs and investors.
Startup Grind came a long way since it was founded in Silicon Valley in 2010 by Derek Andersen and Spencer Nielson. Back in the day, I remember attending the company's meetups in borrowed spaces that were gathering just a few dozen local entrepreneurs seeking funding, partnerships, and sometimes new hires and mentors.
At the Startup Grind Global Conference this week, an underrated conference about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley—alongside The Startup Conference next June—more than 200 startups from around the world will be pitching and below is our selection of the 19 to watch for at the event.
Anduin Transactions is a platform that streamlines the workflow, communication, and collaboration during the fundraising process between entrepreneurs, VC investors and legal teams.
Think of Billpocket as the equivalent of Square, which allows merchants to accept credit card payments on mobile devices (tablets, smartphones) using a plastic dongle, for Latin America.
Bootkik and Virtual Gurus are two marketplaces that connect entrepreneurs with industry experts, independent consultants, and gurus to help them grow their business.
ClearMask is a full-face transparent surgical mask that makes healthcare more human by improving whole-face communication for more compassionate, inclusive connections.
CommonGenius is a marketplace that enables professionals to schedule one-on-one video meetings with leading experts and executives, empowering them to make better, faster business and career decisions.
Dhonor's platform seeks to assist the millions of patients with deficient organs around the world by safely giving them access to organs from drivers deceased in traffic accidents and assisting the families of the deceased through this everyone-wins ecosystem.
Fansure enables fans to ensure their game tickets based on whether their favorite players actually play. If their desired player sits out, they get reimbursed up to the full cost of their ticket.
Generation Transfer and Miigen have developed digital time capsules to help capture memories, insights and life experiences.
Halan provides a ride-hailing service to underserved communities in Africa and the Middle East using light transport vehicles that are most adept for these areas including tuk-tuks, motorcycles and tricycles.
Ingu Solutions’ Pipers technology is an in-line screening tool for small diameter and unpiggable pipelines which helps identify risks that threaten pipeline performance and safety with zero downtime.
miiCloud's Passwordless is an Authentication-as-a-Service solution that allows developers to integrate face recognition technology into their application (mobile and desktop) and manages user credentials.
Presentr is a mobile coaching app that replicates the experience of having a communication's coach by your side when you practice for a public speaking performance.
Ryde is a peer-to-peer sharing marketplace for car rentals.
SkyHive built a platform to apply a skills-based approach, as opposed to a job-based approach, to match work opportunities. Its skills-matching uses machine learning to extrapolate the technical and soft skills possessed by job seekers, as well as the hiring needs of employers. By matching job seekers with work based on skills, it exponentially increases the number of opportunities a candidate is qualified for and offers a larger and more qualified pool of candidates to employers.
Syfer built a device that sits between your router and Internet modem (cable or ADSL) that encrypts your data through a VPN, blocks ads, alerts in real time of malicious activities, including phishing attacks, ransomware, and malware, and allows you to set parental controls.
Valisure is an online pharmacy attached to an analytical laboratory where all medications are batch-tested and delivered with a certificate of analysis, at no additional cost.
VR NEXT is a cloud-based platform to easily create 3-D and virtual interiors decorated by finishing materials from DIY and online furniture shops.
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California Bill Wants All Uber, Lyft Drivers to Undergo Drug Testing
California would be the first state to make such testing a legal requirement.
California has introduced a bill that would require all Uber and Lyft drivers to undergo drug testing, which could make it the first state to formally mandate such an action.
The bill created by state Assemblyman Adrian Nazarian also wants fingerprint-based background checks for all ride-share app drivers and an institution of “pull notices” to alert the companies when a driver has been arrested for a DUI or a serious conviction. He hopes to avoid a criminal using the ID of a younger brother with a clean record to apply to become an Uber driver, which fingerprinting would prevent.
“Rideshare companies, such as Uber and Lyft that claim to be focused on consumer safety, should welcome and embrace the opportunity to show consumers how safe and friendly their drivers can be, while providing an affordable and technology-driven transportation service,” said Nazarian. “Who would be against making sure your driver is not a convicted felon or a reckless driver?”
The district attorneys of Los Angeles and San Francisco filed a lawsuit last year over Uber allegedly not fingerprinting prospective drivers. Lyft settled their suit, but Uber continues to fight theirs.
Last September, Chicago began implementing “common sense” drug testing on Uber drivers. Southside Alderman Roderick Sawyer formally forbid ride-sharing companies throughout Chicago from hiring a driver that has not passed a drug test administered by a company authorized by city hall. He stated that he simply wanted “to make sure our constituents our safe and have a safe ride.”
All drivers would need to drug tested annually. A positive test would result in being prohibited from operating a ride-sharing vehicle for at least one year. They would also need to pass a drug test before being rehired. Any company who hired a driver who tested positive or didn’t follow the protocol would face daily fines of $500-$1,000. However, the mandate has a two-tiered system, which will prevent part-time drivers from having to be tested annually.
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HARROP: The 'Spiral of Silence'
'Spiral' is a theory that people hesitate to say things when they think others won't agree
HARROP: The 'Spiral of Silence' 'Spiral' is a theory that people hesitate to say things when they think others won't agree Check out this story on theleafchronicle.com: http://leafne.ws/1o0WrDk
By Froma Harrop Published 11:00 p.m. CT Sept. 3, 2014 | Updated 8:59 a.m. CT Sept. 4, 2014
Froma Harrop(Photo: File photo)
With folks yapping all day on social media – Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and the rest – how can there be such a thing as a "spiral of silence" online?
Easy. Just make the experience of online political debate so disjointed, impersonal and unpleasant that people shut themselves up. Or they hide out in groupings where everyone says much the same thing. In that case, what they're doing is cheerleading, not debating.
The "spiral of silence" is a theory that people hesitate to say things they believe others in their group won't agree with. It predates the Internet age.
Let me add that the "spiral of silence" disproportionately affects the shy, the thoughtful and the female.
Social media were supposed to free these cooped-up opinions by offering new venues for speaking one's piece. But this high-minded promise of a vast online town hall for pensive argument has fallen flat, according to a new report by Pew Research Center and Rutgers University.
If anything, people seem less willing to engage in real back-and-forth about public affairs on websites than they are in old-fashioned personal settings, the researchers found.
We're talking about politics here, not hiking trips, kitchen renovations and dog adoptions. And the politics we're talking about is not a rally for Sen. Foghorn – the sort of thing that works well online – but a real hashing out of political differences.
To find out how the public ranks social media as a place for political debate, the researchers asked questions about Edward Snowden's leaks of the National Security Agency's operations. They used this issue because polls found the public fairly divided on the subject.
Only 16 percent of respondents who use Facebook said they'd discuss it there. And only 14 percent of those on Twitter said they'd talk about it on Twitter.
But 40 percent said they'd be willing to debate the matter at a family dinner table and 32 percent at a restaurant with friends.
Why aren't we doing more political interchange online? For starters, the Web fragments us into bands of the like-minded. People with minority views can huddle with others holding the same views, making them feel safer, part of a majority.
Further, online interaction is notoriously devoid of restraints on anti-social behavior – doubly so when creeps hide behind fake identities or go anonymous. Not everyone can laugh at "You are an idiot." And for the vulnerable, squads of lowlife trolls can multiply the hurt.
Here's another possible reason for social media's poor showing as a stage for political debate. How can anyone engage in a serious discussion on Facebook with videos of goats nuzzling monkeys cluttering the feeds, alongside pix of weddings and kayaks?
As for Twitter, how can anything more complicated than the temperature in Chicago be discussed in 140 characters or fewer? What passes on Twitter for political debate is often a battle of links. People offer a link to a longer article or post and then add only a handful of their own words, such as "I agree" or "This guy is right" or "You're wrong, read this."
According to the Pew-Rutgers report, people weren't even using social media for basic information about the Snowden-NSA conflict. Almost 60 percent said that television/radio was one of their sources. Some 34 percent said they used online sources other than social media – mainly the sites of mainstream news organizations, I bet. Only 15 percent sought knowledge on the issue through Facebook, and a mere 3 percent used Twitter.
It all sounds paradoxical, but here we have it: Noise only increases the silence on things that matter to our society.
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Guess what almost every Swedish toddler has done?
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A Swedish toddler using a computer. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
Swedish internet use has grown by an average of two hours per week in one year and more than 90 percent of three-year-olds have been online at least once, a new study shows.
The 2016 edition of the Internet Infrastructure Foundation's (IIS) report on Swedish internet habits also shows that only seven percent of people in Sweden do not use the internet, with a lack of interest and poor ability with technology the most common explanations.
Swedes spent an average of 24 hours a week on the internet in 2016, up by around two hours on last year, and five hours more than five years ago.
And the younger the person, the more time they are likely to consume doing so. Swedes aged between 16 and 25 for example now average 40 hours online weekly, up from 36 hours last year.
Above all, the time spent using the internet outside of the home has grown, with examples like use at work, in school or en route to somewhere else increasing.
“More and more are being connected via their mobile or a tablet. The more people do that, the more time they spend online, because you can be connected everywhere,” IIS digital strategist Måns Jonasson told news agency TT.
While tablets were less common five years ago, there is now an average of one in every Swedish household. The rise of the devices is believed to be an explanation for the increase in younger children using the internet.
“I think it's to do with it being a practical device with a large screen that is easier for small fingers to use compared to a telephone. Then, more apps and services have been released which are marketed towards kids and only work on tablets,” Jonasson explained.
Three years ago IIS figures showed that eight percent of two-year-olds and 20 percent of three-year-olds used the internet daily, but the numbers have now increased to 32 percent and 57 percent respectively.
Parents' attitudes towards tablets are also changing, the research shows, with stigma about the possibility of the devices being harmful beginning to disappear.
The study also revealed that the internet continues to chip away at other media forms, with it now beating TV as the most important source of information for older age groups as well as the young.
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About the Activity:- Kangra is undoubtedly the most rugged and most beautiful side of Himachal Pradesh, and to get to stay in such environs is a great chance. This heritage cottage stay in the Garli Village of Kangra provides you with one such great experience.- Located ...
Day Trip to Kangra Valley in Dharamshala
About the Activity: A beautiful gorge in Himachal Pradesh, Kangra valley has been attracting visitors for many years with its stunning sights.Embark on a day full of sightseeing at this getaway and explore its charm as you depart early post breakfast.On the way, you...
Hire a Guide to Explore Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
About the Activity:Hire a guide and experience true beauty of the of the Himalayam region like never before at your own pace.Mcleodganj and Dharamshala houses Tibetan works, archives, thousands of precious manuscripts in and around the town, also this hillside city is h...
Mcleodganj and Dharamshala Full Day Sightseeing Trip in a Car
About the Activity:Marvel and experience the cedar forests on the edge of the Himalayas like never before in your own private sightseeing tour like never before.Mcleodganj and Dharamshala houses Tibetan works, archives, thousands of precious manuscripts in and around the...
Camping in Dharamshala at 5000 Ft - Flat 14% Off
About Dharamshala:One of the most amazing place in Himachal Pradesh takes you to this town which is famous for Dalai Lama's temple, natural beauty, original hot water springs and of course, a vast expanse of lush green vegetation.About the camp:The camp is located in the...
Dharamshala Full Day Sightseeing Tour
About the Activity:- A place of utmost importance in the religion of Buddhism and one of the most beautiful hill stations in the country, Dharamshala is worth exploring in all its glory. This full day sightseeing tour of the city will bring you peace, spirituality, and a...
Traditional Day at Dharamshala
About the Activity: Visit Dharamshala, a scenic beauty located in Kangra district of northern Himachal Pradesh and be a part of the exciting village life for one day.Stroll through the markets, the crowded corners of the village and see how the economy of the villa...
Half Day Sightseeing Tour at Mcleodganj and Dharamshala in a Car
About the Activity:Experience the lush green forests on the edge of the Himalayas like never before in your own private sightseeing tour like never before.Mcleodganj and Dharamshala houses Tibetan works, archives, thousands of precious manuscripts in and around the tow...
11 Days 10 Nights Sightseeing in Himachal
About the Activity:Head out for an adventurous trip to explore the Himachal and get a chance to explore the incandescent beauty of this region.Start your tour after reaching Shimla and get transferred to your hotel. Check into the hotel and freshen up.Soak in the amazing...
Half Day Sightseeing Tour in a Car around Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
About the Activity:Experience the cedar forests and the high snow clad Dhauladhar ranges form a magnificent backdrop to the hill retreat of Dharamsala. Engage yourself in a half day trip that takes you to some of the famous attractions like Dalai lama temple, Dal lake,...
Nature and Village Hiking in Dharamshala
About the Activity:Experience the thrill and fun with this exciting trekking expedition in Dharamshala and soak in the natural beauty of this region.Meet your guide for the tour at your hotel in Mcleod Ganj and get started for the amazing adventure.Hike through the vivid...
Historical Kangra Tour from Dharamshala
About the Activity:Get a chance to learn about the historical beauty of Kangra with this exciting tour from Dharamshala.Meet your guide for the tour at your hotel in Dharamshala and begin your tour.Soak in the amazing beauty of the region with the valleys and the greener...
Sightseeing Tour at Dharamshala
About the Activity:Head out for this one of a kind amazing sightseeing tour at Dharamshala and make your vacation a special one.Start your tour after getting picked up from your hotel in an air-conditioned vehicle and head off to Macleod Ganj.This region offers some of t...
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Spin the prayer wheels or appreciate the magnificent stupas which are a common sight in places to visit in Dharamshala, amidst the monks, monasteries, and momos. Another common sound but not so common to a city dweller is the ringing bells and chirpin
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Dharamshala, a popular tourist destination in Himachal Pradesh is full of natural sights and finding resorts in Dharamshala is not a challenge thanks to the immense options available. McLeod Ganj has many popular resorts such as the Spring Valley Reso
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Trane has been making buildings better for more than 100 years. We were incorporated in 1913, just one year after Woodrow Wilson, former NJ governor, was elected president. In fact, the same year that we were incorporated the NY Times building was constructed, the new Grand Central Terminal was opened, and the NY Highlanders American League baseball team officially adopted the “Yankees” name.
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The Trane Company has been serving the heating, air conditioning and ventilating needs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island), New Jersey, Long Island and Westchester County since 1913.
With a rich history of innovation (we developed a lighter aircraft intercooler for more efficient WWII war planes, and the design was later used on Apollo 15’s Lunar Rover), industry expertise, and geographic familiarity with the New York, New Jersey area, we know the climate control challenges you run up against.
Innovation from Day One
In 1864, a young James A. Trane emigrated from Norway to La Crosse, Wis. By 1885, James Trane opened a plumbing shop in La Crosse. Inspired by the area‘s cold winters, he invented the Trane Vapor Heating System. His son Reuben, born in 1886, shared his father‘s inventiveness and went to school to become an engineer. In 1913, Rueben, his sister Stella, and their father James incorporated The Trane Company.
1920s: Growth and Innovation.
During this time the company was shaped by ideas, inventions, and the formation of a business strategy.
1925 – The first “Trane Assistant Branch Office Manager Class” convened to help address demand for their successful convector product. This program evolved into the Trane Graduate Training Program.
1926 – Spending time alone, Reuben Trane began development of a device to replace the cast iron radiator. In 1926, a patent for the convector-radiator was filed.
1928 – The founders saw the need for international manufacturing and formed the Trane Company of Canada with a manufacturing plant in Toronto.
1930s: Air Conditioning Pioneers
After the introduction of the fin and tube heat exchanger in the Convector-Radiator, Trane began to explore other uses for the unit including coupling fans to the device and using cold ground water for cooling. Trane Unit Coolers were introduced shortly thereafter, and were designed for offices, restaurants, department stores, factories and movie theaters.
1938 – Trane fundamentally changed the concept of air conditioning buildings with the launch of the Turbovac™, the industry‘s first hermetic centrifugal refrigeration machine. It began a long chain of innovation which led to the CenTraVac™.
1940s: The War Years
During World War II (WWII), Trane used its proven technologies in heating, process cooling and air conditioning to create products for the armed forces and air condition military bases and ships. One product, the intercooler used on piston-driven aircrafts, is a major breakthrough in the war effort. The intercooler permitted Allied warplanes to fly higher and faster than before while maintaining performance – the same concept was later leveraged to produce heat exchangers for the Lunar Rover, the first man-made vehicle on the moon. This decade also brought with it the announcement that Trane would manufacture 50-200 ton centrifugal chillers – or perhaps go as high as 300 tons!
1950s: Mid-Century Momentum
Taking advantage of the post-war construction boom, Trane expands its air conditioning and fan lines, and begins to manufacture its own reciprocating compressors, solidifying its position as an industry leader. Trane introduces the CenTraVac water chiller and at the end of the decade, would launch a new line of absorption chillers. Trane offers a complete line of HVAC products for commercial, institutional and industrial buildings.
The mid-1950s – The company sold 3,000,000 convectors. Trane ventures into self-contained air conditioning units for commercial use. The compact packaged products are delivered to customers ready for installation and operation, lowering their installation costs and shortening construction schedules.
1960s: Growth and Stabilization
Many new product enhancements are announced including absorption cold generators as large as 1475 tons, 5 to 15 ton rooftop units, and the PCV CenTraVac (also known as “sidewinder”) is launched. The first acoustic laboratory is built to test equipment. Trane’s tradition of educating the industry continues with the launch of the Air Conditioning Clinics that continue to be well-attended today.
1970s: Education, Efficiency, and Moving On Up
1971 – Trane‘s innovations reach outer space when the basic heat exchanger design of its WWII aircraft intercooler is used on the Lunar Rover of the Apollo 15 mission. Trane VariTrane™ air terminal devices are introduced.
1973 – The company introduced its first design and energy modeling software – TRane Air Conditioning Economics or TRACE™. In October, OPEC imposes an oil embargo and in that same month Trane introduces its “Conserve Energy by Design Campaign”.
1978 – Trane purchased Sentinel Electronics. This event launched the company into providing systems control through versions of its Tracer™ BMS.
1980s: Systems Advancement and Expansion
In 1980, following significant increases in product efficiency, the “Trane for Energy Fitness” campaign is launched in print and on TV. The company increases presence in the residential market by purchasing General Electric’s residential HVAC division in 1983. That same year, Trane orders exceed $1 billion dollars. After 70 years as an independent business, Trane becomes the largest division of American Standard in 1984.
Several new products were also introduced including a newly designed three-stage CenTraVac chiller, reaching unprecedented efficiency levels.
1990s: It’s Hard to Stop A Trane
1990 – The 10,000th CVHE CenTraVac™ chiller ships. A Modular Climate Changer that allowed stacking of modules was also made available, enabling the split dehumidification configuration still used in dedicated outdoor air units today.
1992 – “It’s Hard to Stop a Trane” tagline is introduced.
1994 – The Intellipak™ rooftop and Voyager™III rooftop product lines launch.
1999 – Satellite broadcasts of Engineer Newsletter Live began to expand educational opportunities for internal and external audiences. Since its inception, this program has been viewed by more than 65,000 engineers, contractors, operators, owners, and architects.
2000 – Present: Thinking Beyond
After 23 years, American Standard spins off its Air Conditioning and Service division in 2007 and Trane briefly becomes a public entity until the company is acquired by Ingersoll Rand in 2008. Also, in 2008 EarthWise™ systems are announced. These are preconfigured systems that include controls, packaged pumping, and system catalogs.
In 2013, Trane marks its 100th anniversary of incorporation honoring its legacy of innovation and its future. Continuing to lead the industry, the company introduced Trane Building Advantage in 2015, positioning Trane as a leading provider of energy services and solutions. As we continue to move forward, you can expect Trane to create solutions that change the way we live, work, and play!
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Irrigation May Reduce Climate Change. Not Good News.
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With all the evidence of human-induced global warming, you'd think it would be good news that some of our activities, like releasing aerosols for example, are also helping to cool the atmosphere. Unfortunately, often the opposite is true. This is starkly illustrated by a new study showing the regional cooling effects of mass irrigation. So why is this a bad thing? The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research and authored by M.J Puma and B.I. Cook, both of Columbia University and NASA's Goddard Institute, tracks the impact of irrigation on global climate in the 20th century. Much like cooling off in the sun after a swim, or sweating to release heat, irrigation creates a cooling effect by absorbing some of the sun's radiation and using it to evaporate water, rather than to heat the soil.
The effect is, the authors say, very regionalized and also very temporary—in fact irrigation has little to no impact on climate change on a global level. But in heavily irrigated areas, the actual effect on climate may be even stronger than warming from CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
The trouble is that many of the most heavily irrigated regions in the world, from India's arid Indus River Basin to California's Central Valley, are in severe danger of depleting the very aquifers that farmers rely on. If this happens, these major food growing regions could be hit by the double whammy of massively reduced water resources and a sudden increase in average temperatures.
The study's authors argue that future climate models need to pay close attention to the effects of irrigation in order to get an accurate picture of regional climatic changes. Farmers might do well to start exploring more efficient water use too if they'd like a more gradual transition from these artificially cooled micro-climates to something more resilient.
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